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mansour_ibrahim
Obsidian | Level 7

Good morinig,

I have a column contains single letters and another number of repetition n.
I want to create a new column that will take value of letters multiply by  n
example.

data have;

input var1 $1 nbr;

cards;

a  3

b  5

c  2

;run;

 

I want:

 

data want

var1  nbr  nvar

a      3      aaa

b      5      bbbbb

c      2      cc

 

 

thank you

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PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

Like this?

 

data have;
input var1 $1 nbr;
cards;
a 3
b 5
c 2
;

data want;
	set have;
	nvar = repeat(var1, nbr-1);
run;

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PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

Like this?

 

data have;
input var1 $1 nbr;
cards;
a 3
b 5
c 2
;

data want;
	set have;
	nvar = repeat(var1, nbr-1);
run;
ballardw
Super User

If you don't want to have a variable defaulting to 200 characters, OR you need the result to be longer than 200 you will want to have a LENGTH statement to assign a desired length to the result variable.

Ksharp
Super User
data have;
input var1 $1 nbr;
rep=repeat(var1,nbr-1);
cards;
a  3
b  5
c  2
;
run;
kiranv_
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

repear function should work

data want;
set have;
nvar=repeat(var1,nbr-1);
run;
mansour_ibrahim
Obsidian | Level 7

Thank you for your answer

Reeza
Super User

@mansour_ibrahim Please mark one of the solutions as the answer. 

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