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mayasak
Quartz | Level 8

Hi,

 

I have a data set and a death list. I need to remove the dead cases from the original dataset and keep the living observations. I would greatly appreciate your help to delete the dead observations from the original dataset. 

data have;
input ID Name$ City$ State$;
cards;
11321 Mickey Mouse Miami FL
44555 Alice Meek Baltimore MD
21713 Lili Good Atlanta GA
12346 Donald Duck Houston TX
;
run;

Death list:
44555 Alice Meek Baltimore MD
21713 Lili Good Atlanta GA

Wanted list:
11321 Mickey Mouse Miami FL
12346 Donald Duck Houston TX

 

Thank you

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Data step solution which does not need any prior sorting:

data want;
set have;
if _n_ = 1
then do;
  declare hash d (dataset:"death");
  d.definekey("id");
  d.definedone();
end;
if d.check() ne 0;
run;

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Ksharp
Super User
data have;
input ID Name & $20. City$ State$;
cards;
11321 Mickey Mouse   Miami FL
44555 Alice Meek     Baltimore MD
21713 Lili Good      Atlanta GA
12346 Donald Duck    Houston TX
;
run;

data Death ;
input ID Name & $20. City$ State$;
cards;
44555 Alice Meek   Baltimore MD
21713 Lili Good    Atlanta GA
;
run;

proc sql;
create table want as
select * from have
except
select * from Death
;
quit;
Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Data step solution which does not need any prior sorting:

data want;
set have;
if _n_ = 1
then do;
  declare hash d (dataset:"death");
  d.definekey("id");
  d.definedone();
end;
if d.check() ne 0;
run;
mayasak
Quartz | Level 8
Thank you Kurt. This was helpful.

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