Date:         Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:55:52 +0100
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From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Proc Contents - Simple Question
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At 16:07 16/04/02 +0200, Jim Groeneveld wrote:

>How would PROC CONTENTS know whether you just sorted according to some
>criterion (variable)?

How?  As far as I'm aware, all PROC CONTENTS does is reads the dataset
header - and the dataset header 'knows' whether (and 'what BY') the dataset
has been sorted (provided the sort was done by PROC SORT), since PROC SORT
tells it so.

Kind Regards,


John

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