SORT DATA IN SAS
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In this post, I will discuss How to sort data in SAS. Sorting plays a very important role in SAS. With and without sorting, data changes drastically in SAS. Consider the below data lines in SAS. DATA EMP_DET; INPUT EMP_ID SALARY; DATALINES; 1 10000 2 10500 3 12000 1 13000 2 12300 3 15000 ; run; When the above code executes, the output will be as below.As it is clearly seen, data is neither sorted by salary nor by emp_id. In order to sort the data, “proc sort” syntax is…...
