How to assign "All' in the blank cell for different variables (race, age, sex, risk)?

[ybz12003]

Hello:

I would like to assign "All' in the blank cell for different variables (race, age, sex, risk)?  I wrote the code below, however it didn't work.  Any idea how?

Thanks.

%let X=RISK;

%let X=AGE;

%let X=SEX;

%let X=RACE;

data A;

SET B;

If &X=" " then &X="All";

run;

[Reeza]

Check what your code will resolve to:

data A;
SET B;
If RACE=" " then RACE="All";
run;

I'm guessing that's not what you want?

Not to sound like a broken record, but you probably don't need a macro here either.

Post what your data looks like and what you're trying to achieve.

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

I'm guessing that this may be what you want:

data a;
   set b;
   array x Risk Age Sex Race;
   /* since you attempting to assign a value of "All" I have to assume the above variables are all character*/
   do i = 1 to dim(r);
      If missing(r[i]) then r[i] = 'All';
   end;
   drop i;
run;

But  if this a data set to export and look like a report then I suggest it is often better to just use a report procedure.

If you have summary rows in data then you are asking for confusion is someone else uses the data set. Or if you have it around long enough to forget the summary.

[ybz12003]

Thanks for the great suggestion, it works! 🙂

[LinusH]

Or use formats, that wouldn't require any data updates.

[Reeza]

You may also want to back up a step - depending on how you're calculating things you may be able to avoid the missing in the first place.