I want to delete ALL blank observations from a data set. I only know how to get rid of blanks from one variable:
data a;
set data(where=(var1 ne .)) ;
run;
Here I set a new data set without the blanks from var1. But how to do it, when I want to get rid of ALL the blanks in the whole data set?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
If you are attempting to get rid of rows where ALL variables are missing, it's quite easy:
/* Create an example with some or all columns missing */
data have;
set sashelp.class;
if _N_ in (2,5,8,13) then do;
call missing(of _numeric_);
end;
if _N_ in (5,6,8,12) then do;
call missing(of _character_);
end;
run;
/* This is the answer */
data want;
set have;
if compress(cats(of _all_),'.')=' ' then delete;
run;
Instead of the compress you could also use OPTIONS MISSING=' ';
beforehand.
If you want to remove ALL Rows with ANY missing values, then you can use NMISS/CMISS functions.
data want;
set have;
if nmiss(of _numeric_) > 0 then delete;
run;
or
data want;
set have;
if nmiss(of _numeric_) + cmiss(of _character_) > 0 then delete;
run;
for all char+numeric variables.