Hello, Is it possible to use the Array and scan together. With the current project I'm working on, I'm currently using the scan function to pull individual variable from a column. For example, here an example of a code I wrote out:
data test;
set temp;
CODE1=scan(CODE,1, ' ');
CODE2=scan(CODE,2,' ');
.
.
.CODE27=scan(CODE,27,' ');
run;
Is it possible to used an 'array' function to simplied this code. Thanks.
Of course, it is possible
data test;
set temp;
array c code1-code27;
do i = 1 to dim(c);
c{i} = scan(CODE, i, ' ');
end;
drop i CODE;
run;
Of course, it is possible
data test;
set temp;
array c code1-code27;
do i = 1 to dim(c);
c{i} = scan(CODE, i, ' ');
end;
drop i CODE;
run;
The code appears to work, but the variable (CODE) is a character variable and I'm getting the error message mentioning numeric data.
Nevermind. I got it to work now. thanks to everyone help.
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