How to get only positive values

[BrahmanandaRao]

data test;
infile cards;
input A1 A2 A3 A4 A5;
cards;
-2 2 5 1 0
1 -2 5 1 2
;
run;
how to get only positive values ?

[PeterClemmensen]

What is your desired result?

[BrahmanandaRao]

Hi Peter,

I want get only positive values only A1 to A5 variables

[ballardw]

What does the actual resulting data set look like?

One interpretation of your request would remove entire observations from the data set if any of the variables are negative.

Another would be to set the negative values to missing.

Another could be create custom format so that negative values appear as blanks in printed output.

Another could be remove a variable from a data set if any of its values are negative.

If I were more awake I might even come up with more meanings for "only positive values"

[Kurt_Bremser]

Maxim 42.

[Astounding]

Getting only positive values is easy. For example, you could program:

data want;
set test;
A1 = 7;
A2 = 7;
A3 = 7;
A4 = 7;
A5 = 7;
run;

However, if this is not the set of positive values that you have in mind, maybe you can describe what the result should look like.

[mkeintz]

What do you mean by get in "get only positive values"?

I don't get it.