Date:         Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:10:00 -0400
Reply-To:     Peter Constantinidis <peter@CONSTANTINIDIS.CA>
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From:         Peter Constantinidis <peter@CONSTANTINIDIS.CA>
Subject:      how does one move down a column,
              fetching observations and creating new variables horizontally?
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I have been trying to use the fetchobs function, but I don't think I'm
using it properly. My idea was that I would just tell it to start
reading at obs 40 and move down 22, and then repeat for a new
observation line in a new data set but nope.

What I have is an input data set with a single variable, but it's in a
specific sequence.

I would like to be able to do for example:

if set1&obs#1 then set2_obs1_var1=set1_obs1
if set1&obs#2 then set2_obs1_var2=set1_obs2

with the idea that instead of:
a
b
c
d

I will get instead, each identified:
a b c d

I can't use proc transpose because I still have to segment it up, plus
it's only 1 variable currently.