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Chris_LK_87
Quartz | Level 8

Hello!

 

I have a dataset that is sorted in id, years, months, day and city based  for each individual purchase. I want to sorted out duplicates that have the same id, year, month and day but different city as shown in dataset 'want'. 

 

data have;
;
input ID$ Year$ month$ Day$ City$;
datalines;
1 2017 Jan Monday Rome
1 2017 Jan Monday Paris
1 2018 Jan Tuesday Rome
1 2018 Jan Tuesday Rome
2 2015 Feb Wednesday Rome
2 2015 Feb Wednesday Paris
2 2018 Feb Friday Rome
2 2018 Feb Friday Rome
3 2015 Apr Wednesday Rome
3 2015 Apr Wednesday Paris
3 2018 Apr Friday Rome
3 2018 Apr Friday Rome
;
run;

 

data want;
;
input ID$ Year$ month$ Day$ City$;
datalines;
1 2017 Jan Monday Rome
1 2017 Jan Monday Paris
2 2015 Feb Wednesday Rome
2 2015 Feb Wednesday Paris
3 2015 Apr Wednesday Rome
3 2015 Apr Wednesday Paris
;
run;

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
data want;
    set have;
    by id year month day city;
    if first.city and last.city;
run;

Your data is year/month/day of week instead of year/month/day of month? That really doesn't make sense to me.

--
Paige Miller

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
data want;
    set have;
    by id year month day city;
    if first.city and last.city;
run;

Your data is year/month/day of week instead of year/month/day of month? That really doesn't make sense to me.

--
Paige Miller
Ksharp
Super User
 

data have;;
input ID$ Year$ month$ Day$ City$;
datalines;
1 2017 Jan Monday Rome
1 2017 Jan Monday Paris
1 2018 Jan Tuesday Rome
1 2018 Jan Tuesday Rome
2 2015 Feb Wednesday Rome
2 2015 Feb Wednesday Paris
2 2018 Feb Friday Rome
2 2018 Feb Friday Rome
3 2015 Apr Wednesday Rome
3 2015 Apr Wednesday Paris
3 2018 Apr Friday Rome
3 2018 Apr Friday Rome
;
run;

proc sort data=have out=duplicate nouniquekey uniqueout=want;
by _all_;
run;

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