Hi this appears conceptually to be simple so hopefully it is. I have a large dataset with many variables and many records structured as follows: Data have;
input unique_ID$ George Fred Jane Mary Many_more_name select_person$;
cards;
kpss 0 0.3 1 1 0.6 Fred
ussu 0.7 1 1 0 1 Mary
esop 1 0.2 0 0 0.2 Fred
aoal 0 1 0.1 0.3 1 Jane
;
run; For each record, I wish multiply by 0.8 the value of the variable whose name is stored in "select_person" such that I obtain: unique_ID George Fred Jane Mary Many_more_name select_person
kpss 0 0.24 1 1 0.6 Fred
ussu 0.7 1 1 0 1 Mary
esop 1 0.16 0 0 0.2 Fred
aoal 0 1 0.08 0.3 1 Jane Apologies if this appears elsewhere I posted earlier but could not find my post. Many thanks in advnce
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