Been a while since I tried this sort of thing with SAS -- probably easy, but at the risk of admitting same... Suppose I have the following file Fred 4 Janice 3 James 5 What I'd like to do is take this data set, and re-write it, as follows: Fred 1 Fred 1 Fred 1 Fred 1 Janice 1 Janice 1 Janice 1 James 1 James 1 James 1 James 1 James 1 In other words, the right-hand field in the original data st is the frequency with which I want to repeat the user (first field) in the new file. So, I want 'Fred' to show up 4 times, Janice 3 times, and James 5 times. And, at the end of each record, the number '1'.
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