Splitting a dataset

[adammom]

Hello, I found a real good macro here once that split a huge dataset (500K) records into equal portions of 30,000 and it was so simple, but now I can't find it.  I would like to split a file only 34K records by account number into equal records of 500 records. I know I know its about 64 datasets, however that is all the other end can handle. 

thank you. 

I don't have anything to attach as I am looking for the example  I had previously.

[Reeza]

Splitting files is relatively trivial if you have clear rules. 

You say account number and 500 records? Does that mean each file is for a single account and maximum 500 records? Or can a file of 500 records have multiple accounts? 

What is the final output format, Excel, csv, sas7bdat data set? 

Split it by grouping variable:

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2015/01/26/how-to-split-one-data-set-into-many/

By amount

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Base-SAS-Programming/split-file-into-multiple-files/td-p/56457

If your final output is a text file use file options, see example 4&5 here

https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lestmtsref/68024/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n15o12lpyoe4gf...

[RW9]

To be honest, unless there is a clear reason (maybe file transmittal can only old a certain amount) then its not a good idea to split data.  It just means you end up with lots of segments to program on.

Its is trvial however to do:

data _null_;
  set your_data nobs=n;
  do i=1 to (n/500);
    call execute('data temp;  set your_data point='||put(i-1*500)||' obs=500; run;');
    call execute('proc export data=temp outfile="<path to file>\File'||strip(put(i,best.))||'.xls"; run;');
  end;
run;

Do note, not tested, but something like that should work.

[adammom]

Thank you! Will give it a try. I sent a file of 32k and was told I had to split it in increments of 500.

[RW9]

If your doing a data transfer then best to use an appropriate format, CSV, XML, etc.