Hello,
My data looks something like this:
var1 var2
1 2
3 3
1 3
I need to keep only the data points that match, such as when var1 and var2 both have a value of 3, and I can get rid of the rest of the data. How could I do this?
data want;
set have;
if var1=var2;
run;
@sdevenny wrote:
Hello,
My data looks something like this:
var1 var2
1 2
3 3
1 3
I need to keep only the data points that match, such as when var1 and var2 both have a value of 3, and I can get rid of the rest of the data. How could I do this?
data want;
set have;
if var1=var2;
run;
@sdevenny wrote:
Hello,
My data looks something like this:
var1 var2
1 2
3 3
1 3
I need to keep only the data points that match, such as when var1 and var2 both have a value of 3, and I can get rid of the rest of the data. How could I do this?
Since all values for the condition are contained in the incoming dataset, you can use WHERE in its different forms as statement, dataset option or SQL clause:
data want;
set have;
where var1 = var2;
run;
data want;
set have (where=(var1 = var2));
run;
proc sql;
create table want as
select *
from have
where var1 = var2
;
quit;
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