Date:         Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:02:59 -0500
Reply-To:     Satindra Chakravorty <satindra@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Satindra Chakravorty <satindra@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Separating SAS output (obs) into datasets
Comments: To: KNuako <asom77@hotmail.com>
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Hi Knuako,  this should do the trick for the given example...

data ds1 ds2 ds3;
set {input-dataset};
if _n_<3 then output ds1; else
if _n_<5 then output ds2; else
   output ds3;
run;

However, if you want to write out discontinuous observations to
different datasets, the code will look different.

Satindra.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:22 PM, KNuako <asom77@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Could someone  provide me with the code to keep different observations
> in specified datasets?
>
> For instance I have this output from SAS:
>
> Obs       var1     var2       var3
> 1          7          1         4
> 2          0          0         8
> 3          9          9         9
> 4          5          6         2
> 5          8          1         1
> 6          2          3         2
> 7          0          0         7
>
>
> • I want to create 3 separate new datasets and keep the observations
> there.
>      eg. Dataset1 should have obs 1 and 2, dataset2 should contain obs 3 &
> 4 and
>       dataset 3 should have obs 5 to7.
>