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srav2
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi,

I'm having a dataset shown as below and all the variables are characters. I need a output in which TERM variable is having the values of both TERM and WORD. PLease help

 

Thanks in advance.

 

INPUT:

 

TERM             WORD                   

Cold                chills                       

Fever              HIgh temperature     

Headache       dizziness                   

                                                        

                                                     

OUTPUT:

                                                        

TERM

 Cold

 chills

  fever

  high temperature

  Headache

 dizziness

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PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

There are numerous ways to do this and it is fairly easily done, but I have to ask why? This does not make sense to me? 🙂

 

data have;
length TERM $50 WORD $50;
input TERM$ WORD$;
infile datalines dlm=',';
datalines; 
Cold,chills                       
Fever,HIgh temperature     
Headache,dizziness
run; 

data want(keep=TERM);
	set have;
	array vars{*} TERM WORD;
	do i=1 to dim(vars);
		TERM=vars[i];
		output;
	end;
run;
srav2
Fluorite | Level 6

its a question asked in interview.

I tried different ways but couldnt get the result.

 

will try this.

 

srav2
Fluorite | Level 6

thanks a lot it worked..

srav2
Fluorite | Level 6

Could you please explain how this worked out.

Shmuel
Garnet | Level 18

If you are not familiar with arrays, next code is same as @PeterClemmensen's code (but his code is flexible to deal with more than 2 variables):

data want(keep=TERM);
	set have;
	output;   /* original TERM only */
        term = word;
       output;   /* = WORD value */ 
run;

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