separate variable

[rvsidhu035]

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

[novinosrin]

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]

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 · Accepted solution]

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]

super work for any length of h