Date:         Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:29:39 -0500
Reply-To:     Marrufo García, Enrique Antonio
              <emarrufo@SHF.GOB.MX>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Marrufo García, Enrique Antonio
              <emarrufo@SHF.GOB.MX>
Subject:      Function: Ordinal?
Comments: To: "Barz, Ken" <Ken.Barz@INTRADO.COM>
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Does anybody know how to get the place of a certain value within an array without an iterative process?. For example,

Value searched:

Search=1085.

In:
array Nodes (5), where:
Node1=10;
Node2=100;
Node3=1000;
Node4=10000;
Node5=20000;

In this case
Place = 4;



EM-----Original Message-----
EMFrom: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
EMBarz, Ken
EMSent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:08 AM
EMTo: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
EMSubject: Re: Job Security? was Joe Security
EM
EM>>Programmers can be created by some kind of crash course but not
EM>>Statisticians, hence no need to worry.
EM
EMI'm now several months into cleaning up my third "Rube Goldberg" machine
EMof a SAS based data management and reporting application that was
EMinitially born and "developed" for years based on this mentality.
EM
EMThe flip-side of this is that I worked my way through grad school in
EMstats at a very large high tech company.  Out of the several stat/data
EMrelated jobs I put in for after graduating, the attitude was: why would
EMwe hire you for this when we can just send an engineer to a stats class?