From: Venky Chakravarthy on
On Fri, 19 May 2006 00:52:55 -0700, Gaetan <gaetan.soulas(a)IFEN.FR> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>excuse me for the language, I am french.

>
>I have a trouble :
>
>I have a colum in a data base and with values of this column, I would
>like to create new var.
>
>ex :
>
>Name Sexe
>
>John Man
>Rita Woman
>
>I would like to have in my database :
>
>Name Sexe Man Woman
>
>John Man 1 0
>Rita Woman 0 1
>
>My trouble is : I have lots of differents values like (men, women,
>men1, men2, men3 , ...)
>
>I have tried with macos functions SYMGET, SYMPUT to get automaticely
>the values and create new columns bit I don't manage because the row :
>
>symget("var")=1
>
>doesn't work.
>
>I hope you can understand what I say.
>
>Thank you
> Ga?tan

Gaetan,

Sorry hit the send key prematurely.

Can you present a small but representative sample of the data that you HAVE
and the REPORT or the DATASET that you WANT out of it?

Venky Chakravarthy
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