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rvsidhu035
Quartz | Level 8

name $ gender $ age;
raviM26 rajeshM28 shaliniF5  how to separate this three variable

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

It does work, you are not reading correctly as you missed out the informat in the input statement

 

data have;
input h : $9. @@;
age=substr(h,anydigit(h));
gender=substr(h,anydigit(h)-1,1);
name=substr(h,1,anydigit(h)-2);
datalines;
raviM26 rajeshM28 shaliniF5
;
run;

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

data have;
h='raviM26';
age=substr(h,anydigit(h));
gender=substr(h,anydigit(h)-1,1);
name=substr(h,1,anydigit(h)-2);
run;

rvsidhu035
Quartz | Level 8

not work for all

data have;
input h $ @@;
age=substr(h,anydigit(h));
gender=substr(h,anydigit(h)-1,1);
name=substr(h,1,anydigit(h)-2);
datalines;
raviM26 rajeshM28 shaliniF5
;
run;
novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

It does work, you are not reading correctly as you missed out the informat in the input statement

 

data have;
input h : $9. @@;
age=substr(h,anydigit(h));
gender=substr(h,anydigit(h)-1,1);
name=substr(h,1,anydigit(h)-2);
datalines;
raviM26 rajeshM28 shaliniF5
;
run;

rvsidhu035
Quartz | Level 8
super work for any length of h

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