Date:         Sat, 17 Apr 1999 14:06:46 GMT
Reply-To:     Andreas Grueninger <grueni@STUTTGART.NETSURF.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Andreas Grueninger <grueni@STUTTGART.NETSURF.DE>
Organization: LF.net GmbH, Internet Services, Stuttgart, Germany
Subject:      Re: Creat new variable according to value of another variable

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 02:42:22 GMT, yxz11@new-york.crosswinds.net (Yu
Zhang) wrote:
 
>Hi there,
>
>I got a question that I want to creat a bunch of variables according
>to the value of another variable. What I want is:
>
>q1
>
>18
>19
>18
>20
>1
>
>then I wnat something like:
>
>q1  an1  an18 an19  an20
>18  .    1    .     .
>19  .    .    1     .
>18  .    1    .     .
>20  .    .    .     1
>1   1    .    .     .
>
>If possible I'd liek to have 0 in place of '.'.
>
%LET name=q1;
data b;
  ARRAY an&name(20);
  ARRAY sean&name(20);
  DO _i_=1 TO DIM(an&name);
     an&name(_i_) = 0;
     sean&name(_i_) = 0;
  END;
  INPUT &name;
  an&name(&name) = &name;
  sean&name(&name) = &name;
  cards;
18
19
18
20
1
;
RUN;
 
 
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