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LightJade
Calcite | Level 5

Hi! 

I need some help on how to do below transformation (from table 1 to table 2), 

 

In my example in table 1, student 1 has been in City02, City03 and City250 of the 250 cities, so I put '1' for each of the 3 cities he went to. 

Student 2 has been in City01, City03 of the 250 cities, so I put '1' for each of the 2 cities he went to. 

 

In my output table 2, I want to list all the cities the students went to in one column and omit the cities that they never visited. 

 

Can anyone give me help how to get table 2 as the output dataset from table 1 in sas?

Greatly appreciate!

Table 1     
 City01City02City03City250
Student 101101
Student 210100

 

 

Table 2 
 City
Student 1City02
Student 1City03
Student 1City250
Student 2City01
Student 2City03
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LightJade
Calcite | Level 5

Hi KurtBremser, thank you so much for above reply. Sorry I was tweaking my original data tables a bit before the posting, so when I applied your code to  my true data, the output gives 0 obs.

 

So I reorganized my data tables in below way to be exactly the same as my true data 

 

Table 1     
Student_IDCity001City002City003City250
A1F2301101
MN19B10100

 

Table 2 
Student_IDCity
A1F23City002
A1F23City003
A1F23City250
MN19BCity01
MN19BCity03

 

May I have your insight how to tweak your above code to make it work?

Thank you very much!!

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Just use the correct variable name (student_id) in the BY statement.

You can avoid such misunderstandings (because I had to make assumptions about your data) by posting data in the proper manner (as SAS code, data steps with datalines).

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