Date:         Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:23:21 -0400
Reply-To:     "Huang, Ya" <ya.huang@PFIZER.COM>
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From:         "Huang, Ya" <ya.huang@PFIZER.COM>
Subject:      Re: Need to sort an ARRAY
Comments: To: John Gober <j.gober@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
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Since you have only 12 vars, why not use ordinal()?

12   data _null_;
13   array temp(12) temp1-temp12 (45,56,38,96,235,96,23,457,73,0,.,33);
14   do i=1 to 12;
15   put temp(i) @;
16   end;
17   put;
18   do i=1 to 12;
19   tempi=ordinal(i, of temp1-temp12);
20   put tempi @;
21   end;
22   run;

45 56 38 96 235 96 23 457 73 0 . 33
. 0 23 33 38 45 56 73 96 96 235 457
NOTE: DATA statement used:

You wouldn't see much difference between sophisticated sorting
algorithm and this brute force method when you have only
12 vars to sort.

Kind regards,

Ya

-----Original Message-----
From: John Gober [mailto:j.gober@WORLDNET.ATT.NET]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:00 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Need to sort an ARRAY


This is probably a simple task but it illudes me now.  I have an array
containing 12 elements representing variables temp1 through temp 12.
Is there some simple and easy method that anyone knows to sort the
array elements in descending value (removing blanks and duplicates)?

Thanks in advance for any ideas and help.

John C. Gober