| Date: | Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:18:04 -0500 |
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| Reply-To: | Jonathan Goldberg <jonathan@MATLOCK.WUSTL.EDU> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Jonathan Goldberg <jonathan@MATLOCK.WUSTL.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: PROC SORT |
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ninon <ndavi@AUFEMININ.COM> asked how to do a case-insensitive sort. Some
good answers have already been given. A view provides another way:
data myview/view=myivew;
set mydata;
lcaseVar = lowcase(sortvar);
run;
proc sort data = myview out = whatever(drop = sortvar); by sortvar;
run;
Jonathan Goldberg
Missouri Alcoholism Research Center
Dept. of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
40 N. Kingshighway, Suite One
St. Louis, MO 63108
314-286-2212
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