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noda6003
Quartz | Level 8

I have 2 datasets one has ID values and i want to merge it with text to get the values from text, i need something like below - want dataset. any help on it

ID
1
2
3
4

 

TEXT
Height
Weight

 

I want something like this

ID TXT
1 Height
1 Weight
2 Height
2 Weight
3 Height
3 Weight
4 Height
4

Weight

 

 

 

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PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

With a data step.

 

data have1;
input ID;
datalines;
1
2
3
4
;

data have2;
input TEXT $;
datalines;
Height
Weight
;

data want;
   set have1;
   do i=1 to n;
      set have2 point=i nobs=n;
      output;
   end;
run;

 

Result:

 

ID  TEXT 
1   Height 
1   Weight 
2   Height 
2   Weight 
3   Height 
3   Weight 
4   Height 
4   Weight 

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Aku
Obsidian | Level 7 Aku
Obsidian | Level 7

With Proc SQL you can create cartesian product just (You haven't defined dataset names , so I'm using column names)

Proc Sql;

  create table want as

  select *

  from  ID, TEXT;

quit;

PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

With a data step.

 

data have1;
input ID;
datalines;
1
2
3
4
;

data have2;
input TEXT $;
datalines;
Height
Weight
;

data want;
   set have1;
   do i=1 to n;
      set have2 point=i nobs=n;
      output;
   end;
run;

 

Result:

 

ID  TEXT 
1   Height 
1   Weight 
2   Height 
2   Weight 
3   Height 
3   Weight 
4   Height 
4   Weight 

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