Hello,
Looking for some assistance...
I have a dataset with a column containing various member_id's (see below example). I would like the first character, everything left of the dash, to be moved to the end of the string prefixed with two 0's and the dash removed. For example, using the below example, looking at the first member id, I'd like 5-12344 to become 12344005.
COLUMN A
5-12344
5-1234
5-123456
7-345
2-3456
Thanks
Use the SCAN() function to separate the components.
cats(scan(a,2,'-'),'00',scan(a,1,'-'))
Another option - regular expression substitution :
data have;
input id :$12.;
datalines;
5-12344
5-1234
5-123456
7-345
2-3456
;
proc sql;
select id, prxchange("s/(\d+)\-(\d+)/\200\1/o", 1, id) as newId length=15
from have;
quit;
data have; input id :$12.; datalines; 5-12344 5-1234 5-123456 7-345 2-3456 ; run; data want; set have; want=repeat('0',9); x=scan(id,1,'-'); y=scan(id,-1,'-'); substr(want,1,length(y))=y; substr(want,10-length(x)+1)=x; run;
Since I was already using heavy artillery, here is some more:
data have;
input id :$12.;
datalines;
5-12344
5-1234
5-123456
7-345
2-3456
;
proc sql;
select id,
put(input(prxchange("s/(\d+)\-(\d+)/\200\1/o", 1, id),10.),z10.0) as newId
from have;
quit;
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