One-to-One Reading: Details

One-to-One Reading Syntax

Use multiple SET statements in a DATA step to combine data sets. One-to-one reading combines rows from two or more data sets by creating rows that contain all of the columns from each contributing data set. Rows are combined based on their relative position in each data set. That is, the first row in one data set is combined with the first in the other, and so on. The data program stops after it has read the last row from the smallest data set.
Syntax, DATA step for one-to-one reading:
DATA output-SAS-data-set;
SET SAS-data-set-1;
SET SAS-data-set-2;
RUN;
  • output-SAS-data-set names the data set to be created.
  • SAS-data-set-1 and SAS-data-set-2 specify the data sets to ...

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