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SBRVamsi
Fluorite | Level 6

if my data looks like this 

 

cust_id        flag

101               N

101               Y

101               N

101               N

102               N   

102               Y

102               N

 

i need my output as below

 

cust_id        flag

101               N

101               Y

101               Y

101               Y

102               N   

102               Y

102               Y

 

Please help me on this asap.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

1 REPLY 1
Shmuel
Garnet | Level 18

data want;

set have;

 by cust_id;

      retain flag1; drop flag1;

     if first.cust_id or flag = 'Y' then flag_1 = flag;

     else flag = flag1;

run;

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