Sorting Data
The SORT Procedure
By default, PROC PRINT lists
observations in the order in which they appear in your data set. To
sort your report based on values of a variable, you must use PROC
SORT to sort your data before using the PRINT procedure to create
reports from the data.
The SORT procedure does
the following:
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rearranges the observations in a SAS data set
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creates a new SAS data set that contains the rearranged observations
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replaces the original SAS data set by default
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can sort on multiple variables
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can sort in ascending or descending order
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treats missing values as the smallest possible values
Note: PROC SORT does not generate
printed output.
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Syntax, PROC SORT step:
PROC SORT DATA=SAS-data-set ... |
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