Hi all,
I have a small question actually, and I am asking that to widen my knowledge of sas. So, I want to break my data set year by year in different datasets. This is the small code that I have:
%let yearvar=1991;
data have&yearvar;
set have;
if year(date)=&yearvar;
run;
So, It is just enough to change the year every time to get for every year. However, I was thinking if there is a way to make a list in the %let statement, that sas does the thing for every one in the list. I could not find such thing in my searches, But I think it might be useful in some cases.
Any one has any idea?
Thanks a lot!
you could create a macro:
data have;
input date mmddyy10.;
format date mmddyy10.;
cards;
1/1/2001
2/1/2001
1/1/2002
1/1/2006
;
proc sql noprint;
select distinct year(date) into :year separated by ' '
from have;
quit;
%macro test;
%do i=1 %to %sysfunc(countw(&year));
%let n=%scan(&year,&i);
data have&n;
set have(where=(year(date)=&n));
run;
%end;
%mend;
%test
Without knowing what comes next after the data step, my guess is that you really want to use a BY statement in whatever PROC follows, and then all this splitting of data sets is unnecessary.
But you could certainly loop through all years in &yearvar and create multiple data sets if you wanted.
you could create a macro:
data have;
input date mmddyy10.;
format date mmddyy10.;
cards;
1/1/2001
2/1/2001
1/1/2002
1/1/2006
;
proc sql noprint;
select distinct year(date) into :year separated by ' '
from have;
quit;
%macro test;
%do i=1 %to %sysfunc(countw(&year));
%let n=%scan(&year,&i);
data have&n;
set have(where=(year(date)=&n));
run;
%end;
%mend;
%test
Thanks a lot linlin,
This was exactcly what I wanted to learn. Actually I was not aware of " select into " and after reading some documents I see how powerful it is.
thanks again!
Try this.
data have;
input Company $ Year;
datalines;
A 2001
A 2002
A 2003
A 2004
B 2001
B 2002
B 2003
C 2001
C 2002
C 2003
C 2004
;
%macro yr;
%do i=2001 %to 2004;
data year&i;
set have(where=(year=&i));
%end;
run;
%mend yr;
%yr;
Not sure if the following is what you are trying to do but, if it is, this would be one way to do it:
data have;
input date date9. x;
cards;
01jan1990 1
02jan1990 2
01jan1991 1
02jan1991 2
01jan1992 1
02jan1992 2
;
proc sql noprint;
select distinct catt('have',year(date)),
catt('when (',year(date),') output have',year(date),';')
into :years separated by ' ',
:out separated by ' '
from have
;
quit;
data &years;
set have;
select (year(date));
&out.
otherwise;
end;
run;
Thanks a lot, Arthur. Actually this is what I was looking for!
Thanks a lot Patrick,
Actually at first I decided to do so because the whole data set was too large and other than losing track, running it would also take a lot of time. Also, It made me to work more on my macro programming skills!
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