Repeated characters

[Saleem]

Hi Team,

data ds1;

infiledatalines;

input star;

cards;

*

**

***

****

*****

run;

how to create 10000 stars at a time by using sas

Thanks in advance

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

Please use descriptive subject lines in the future, so others do not need to do that for you. Using just "sas" (sic) in the SAS communities does not shine a positive light on a poster's intelligence.

For your question:

data want (compress=yes);
length stars $32767;
do i_n_= 1 to 10000;
  stars = repeat('*',_n_);
  output;
end;
run;

[Astounding]

The REPEAT function has a quirk ... it starts with the first string, and then repeats it the number of times in the second parameter.  So the first value generated would be ** rather than *.  I imagine that a value of 0 for the second parameter is OK, and that the loop should go from 0 to 9999 instead of 1 to 10000.

[Kurt_Bremser]

I must admit that I just know that the function exists, but have never used it. And, to my shame, I did not mention the code is untested (I am on my tablet at the moment while watching NFL Gamepass).