name $ gender $ age;
raviM26 rajeshM28 shaliniF5 how to separate this three variable
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;
data have;
h='raviM26';
age=substr(h,anydigit(h));
gender=substr(h,anydigit(h)-1,1);
name=substr(h,1,anydigit(h)-2);
run;
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;
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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