Date:         Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:51:31 -0800
Reply-To:     "Schwarz, Barry A" <barry.a.schwarz@BOEING.COM>
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From:         "Schwarz, Barry A" <barry.a.schwarz@BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Re: comparing fields on the fly
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Try an array and a do loop.

-----Original Message-----
From: nyiann [mailto:nwy@UALBERTA.CA]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 2:37 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: comparing fields on the fly


Hi all,

I have data like this:

real sim1 sim2 sim3...
1 3 2 3
4 2 2 1
3 4 7 8
2 3 4 5
1 3 5 4
2 3 4 3
...

I want to cound the number of times, for each record, the number of
times that real is larger than sim.  I am doing this by transposing and
then counting, but this seems like the wrong way to do it.  There must
be a really easy trick here.  Any ideas?