How to join multiple columns into one in sas - sas

Question

I have a time series SAS dataset and I want to transfer it to vertical dataset.
My data looks like..
ID A2009 A2010 A2011 A2012
1 1 2 3 4
2 1 2 3 4
3 1 2 3 4
4 1 2 3 4
5 1 2 3 4
data multcol;
infile datalines;
input ID A2009 A2010 A2011 A2012 A2013;
return;
datalines;
1 1 2 3 4 5
2 1 2 3 4 5
3 1 2 3 4 5
4 1 2 3 4 5
5 1 2 3 4 5
;
run;
proc print data=multcol noobs;
run;
I search the web only find someone's solution as following.Not worked.
But my dataset is too large, this method shut down my computer.
data cmbcol(keep=a orig_varname orig_obsnum);
set multcol;
array myvars _numeric_;
do i = 2 to dim(myvars);
orig_varname = vname(myvars(i));
orig_obsnum = _n_;
A = myvars(i);
output;
end;
run;
proc print data=cmbcol ;
title 'cmbcol';
run;
proc sort data=cmbcol;
by orig_varname a;
run;
proc print data=cmbcol noobs;
title 'cmbcol';
run;
And I want them to become like this.
ID t t+1
1 1 2
2 1 2
3 1 2
4 1 2
5 1 2
1 2 3
2 2 3
3 2 3
4 2 3
5 2 3
1 3 4
2 3 4
3 3 4
4 3 4
5 3 4
How can we do that?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

That is an unusual data structure for sure, but you could achieve this using the following macro (adjust to your needs).
options validvarname = any;
%macro transp;
%let i = 2009;
%do %while (&i <= 2011);
%let j = %eval(&i + 1);
data part_&i(rename = (A&i = t A&j = 't+1'n));
set multcol(keep = ID A&i A&j);
run;
%let i = %eval(&i + 1);
%end;
data combined;
set part_:;
run;
proc datasets nolist nodetails;
delete part_:;
quit;
%mend transp;
%transp