Dear,
We have SAS dataset like below -
ID | NOTE |
1 | [18/07/2018] Hello [19/07/2018] Hello world |
2 | [20/07/2018] Hello [29/07/2018] Hello world |
We need to prepare dataset like below -
ID | DATE | NAME |
1 | 18/07/2018 | Hello |
1 | 19/07/2018 | Hello world |
2 | 20/07/2018 | Hello |
2 | 29/07/2018 | Hello world |
Please provide me solution using DATA step as well PROC SQL. Thanks!
Kinjal
Why do you have a dataset like that in the first place, not good. Anyways, datastep is the best solution, sql would be complex processing.
data want; set have; length curr $200; do i=1 to countc(note,"["); curr=scan(note,i,"["); date=scan(curr,1,"]"); name=scan(curr,2,"]"); output; end; run;
Note, not tested, post test data in the form of a datastep in future.
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