Date:         Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:31:26 -0500
Reply-To:     "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: help needed  replacing variable attributes.

"davy" <no.spam@here.please> wrote in message
news:gfBSb.14071$JL4.116152@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net...
> I have a dataset with well over two hundered variables.
>
> All of the variables are character.
>
> What I would like to do is to replace each instance where a variable
> attribute is a "T","N" or "_"  with the letter "Y".
>
> Is there anyway i can do this with a global statement or something (rather
> than laboriously typing out 'if statements' for each variable).
>
> I would appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Davy
>
>

You can use an array

array v _character_;
do i = 1 to dim(v);
  if v(i) in ('T', 'N', '_') then v(i) = 'Y';
end;

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