Combine Two Tables with data step

[ccnky123]

Table: Person

+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type    |
+-------------+---------+
| PersonId    | int     |
| FirstName   | varchar |
| LastName    | varchar |
+-------------+---------+
PersonId is the primary key column for this table.

Table: Address

+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type    |
+-------------+---------+
| AddressId   | int     |
| PersonId    | int     |
| City        | varchar |
| State       | varchar |
+-------------+---------+
AddressId is the primary key column for this table.

Use data step for a report that provides the following information for each person in the Person table, regardless if there is an address for each of those people:

FirstName, LastName, City, State

[PeterClemmensen · Accepted solution]

Do something like this (just made some data up)

data Person;
input PersonID FirstName $ LastName $;
datalines;
1 Peter Smith
2 Otto Burch
3 Paul Johnson
4 William Jones
5 Allan Brown
;

data Address;
input AddressID PersonID City $ State $20.;
datalines;
72 1 Houston Texas
44 3 Miami Florida
87 5 Seattle Washington
;

proc sort data=Person; by PersonID; run;
proc sort data=Address; by PersonID; run;

data want(drop=PersonID AddressID);
   merge Person(in=p) Address;
   by PersonID;
   if p;
run;