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rajd1
Quartz | Level 8

Hi, I am working with some textual data and i want to combine textual rows by ID.

 

Data have:

ID alpha
1 a
1 b
1 c
2 a
2 c
3 a
3 b
4 a

 

Data Want:

1 a,b,c
2 a,c
3 a,b
4 a

Thanks,

 

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

data have;
input ID	alpha $;
cards;
1	a
1	b
1	c
2	a
2	c
3	a
3	b
4	a
;

data want;
 do until(last.id);
  set have;
  by id;
  length want $100;
  want=catx(',',want,alpha);
 end;
 drop alpha;
run;

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

data have;
input ID	alpha $;
cards;
1	a
1	b
1	c
2	a
2	c
3	a
3	b
4	a
;

data want;
 do until(last.id);
  set have;
  by id;
  length want $100;
  want=catx(',',want,alpha);
 end;
 drop alpha;
run;
rajd1
Quartz | Level 8
Thank you Sir
rajd1
Quartz | Level 8
data have;
input ID	alpha $;
cards;
1	a
1	b
1	c
2	a
2	c
3	a
3	b
4	a
4      a
;

data want;
 do until(last.id);
  set have;
  by id;
  length want $100;
  want=catx(',',want,alpha);
 end;
 drop alpha;
run;

Just a minor addition: What if i had the same alpha for the same id. For example id#4 has a and a twice. I just want it to be displaced as 'a' instead of 'a,a'

novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

Hi @rajd1  Please try the modified and let me know-

 



data have;
input ID	alpha $;
cards;
1	a
1	b
1	c
2	a
2	c
3	a
3	b
4	a
4      a
;

data want;
 do until(last.id);
  set have;
  by id;
  length want $100;
  if ^index(want,strip(alpha)) then want=catx(',',want,alpha);
 end;
 drop alpha;
run;
Sathish_jammy
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

The following code will help you.

data want(Keep = id newvar);
length newvar $200.;
set have;
by ID;
retain newvar;
if first.ID then newvar=alpha;
else newvar=catx(',',newvar,alpha);
if last.ID;
run;

 

rajd1
Quartz | Level 8
Thanks a lot!

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