At 08:52 AM 7/21/2006, Joe Whitehurst wrote: >Wild Bill, > >Surely you don't doubt that dullness is normally distributed among >any large population?

interesting proposition; but i'll defer to my personal statistician before answering ...

now where is Cassell when i need him!

>Joe > >On 7/21/06, William W. Viergever <william@viergever.net> wrote: >>At 08:33 PM 7/20/2006, Joe Whitehurst wrote: >> >Murugappan, >> > >> >Unlike many of your duller SAS-L colleagues, >> >> >>ouch!!! >> >>talk about a meat cleaver segue ... >> >>joe, you know i mean this in the best way, but i can't help wonder >> >>which is worse >> >>being duller or being a dullard >> >>:-), yawn .... >> >>and here i was looking forward to a pleasant fryeday under a 100 >> >>out >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >you seem to be ready to >> >move up to SAS Component Language which has a construct tailored for >> >your desires: >> > >> >Creating Data Dynamically in SCL >> >SCL lists are dynamic rather than static. That is, SCL programs create >> >these lists at run time. This means that list sizes are computed at >> >run time rather than before the list is created. Further, unlike >> >arrays, which have a fixed size, a list's length can grow or shrink to >> >accommodate the amount of data you want to maintain. >> > >> >SCL lists can contain items of mixed types, whereas all SAS arrays >> >are fixed in type. (Depending on its declaration, an array contains >> >either numeric data or character data, but not both). One item in an >> >SCL list can be a number and the next item can be a character string, >> >while a third might be another list. Further, you have the freedom to >> >replace a numeric value with a character value in a list, and vice >> >versa. Although you can make lists that are of fixed type, you have >> >the freedom to allow multiple types in the same list. >> > >> >Note: Character values that are stored in SCL lists can be up to >> >32,766 characters per item. >> > >> >Gentleman Joe Joker >> > >> >On 7/20/06, Murugappan Ramanathan >> <murugappan.x.ramanathan@us.hsbc.com> wrote: >> >>i have a character variable whose values look like this >> >>pke >> >> >> >>1010,2010 >> >>1011,2011 >> >>1013,2013 >> >>1014,2014 >> >>1015,2015 >> >>1016,2016 >> >>1017,2017 >> >>1018,2018 >> >>1019,2019 >> >>1020,2020 >> >>1010, 1011, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1020, 2010, 2011, >> >>2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 >> >>1010, 1011, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1020, 2010, 2011, >> >>2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 >> >>1010, 1011, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1020, 2010, 2011, >> >>2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 >> >>1010, 1011, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1020, 2010, 2011, >> >>2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 >> >>1010, 1014, >> >>2010,2014 >> >>1011, 1013, >> >>2011,2013 >> >>1015,2015 >> >>1016,2016 >> >>i read this character string and create an array and transorm each number >> >>into a array element. now i have fixed the array size. but i want to make >> >>the array size depended upon the number of numbers in the character >> >>string. >> >>array pk(30)= $ pk1 - pk30; >> >>do i=1 to 30; >> >>pk(i)= scan(pke,','); >> >>end; >> >>i want to make the size of array pk >> >>dynamic. >> > >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >>William W. Viergever >>Viergever & Associates >>Health Data Analysis / Systems Design & Development >>Sacramento, CA 95825 >>william@viergever.net >>(916) 483-8398 >>--------------------------------------------------- >

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