Date:         Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:18:04 -0500
Reply-To:     Jonathan Goldberg <jonathan@MATLOCK.WUSTL.EDU>
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From:         Jonathan Goldberg <jonathan@MATLOCK.WUSTL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: PROC SORT
Comments: cc: ninon <ndavi@AUFEMININ.COM>
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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
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