Hi
this was inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10798393/dynamic-variable-names-in-sas
data have;
input id arraynum num1 num2 result;
cards;
1 2 3 8 11
2 1 7 8 7
;
run;
data want (drop=i);
set have;
array nums(*) num: ;
do i=1 to arraynum;
tot=sum(of tot,nums(i));
end;
run;
A dataset has the same structure for all observations; you can't have a dataset with different number of columns in different observations.
And an array is created at data step compile time; it cannot change its size during data step execution time.
Hi
this was inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10798393/dynamic-variable-names-in-sas
data have;
input id arraynum num1 num2 result;
cards;
1 2 3 8 11
2 1 7 8 7
;
run;
data want (drop=i);
set have;
array nums(*) num: ;
do i=1 to arraynum;
tot=sum(of tot,nums(i));
end;
run;
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