Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:47:38 -0800
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From:         Sdlentertd <sdlentertd@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Array for different formats
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I have three fields (each one is in different format) in one dataset,
how can I use "array" function in one datastep.
ID - character, Price - Numeric, Date - Date9.  format

This does NOT work:
data new;
set have;
array a_ID(*) $ ID1-ID10;
array b_Price(*) Price1-price10;
array c_date(*) Date1-Date10;

do i=1 to 10 until  (compress(upcase(a_ANOTHER_option(i))) = "NO");
a_ID(i) = a_ID(1);
b_Price(i) = b_Price(1);
c_date(i) = c_date(1);

what am I doing wrong?