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. >

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