Hello,
Am using a where statement in a data step. My variable runs from '2000' to '2019'. I don't want to write all the years and I believe there may be a way in sas to do it quickly and effectively. All of the values of interest are sequential.
This attempt gave me an error.
data want;
set have;
where year in ( '2000' --'2019');
run;
Normally, you would never use a character variable to represent calendar or clock quantities, in this case the year.
Assuming you have numeric year values, then this works:
data want;
set have;
where 2000<=year<=2019;
run;
This also works
data want;
set have;
where year between 2000 and 2019;
run;
Normally, you would never use a character variable to represent calendar or clock quantities, in this case the year.
Assuming you have numeric year values, then this works:
data want;
set have;
where 2000<=year<=2019;
run;
This also works
data want;
set have;
where year between 2000 and 2019;
run;
If the values are integers you can use : to indicate a sequence.
1 data want; 2 set sashelp.class; 3 where age in (11:13) ; 4 run; NOTE: There were 10 observations read from the data set SASHELP.CLASS. WHERE (age=INT(age)) and (age>=11 and age<=13); NOTE: The data set WORK.WANT has 10 observations and 5 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): real time 0.06 seconds cpu time 0.03 seconds
Since you have quotes, I assume that's a character variable? Convert it to numeric if that's valid and then use BETWEEN.
where input(year, 8.) between 2000 and 2019;
@CathyVI wrote:
Hello,
Am using a where statement in a data step. My variable runs from '2000' to '2019'. I don't want to write all the years and I believe there may be a way in sas to do it quickly and effectively. All of the values of interest are sequential.
This attempt gave me an error.
data want;
set have;
where year in ( '2000' --'2019');
run;
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