Functions and CALL Routines |
Category: | Sort |
Interaction: | When invoked by the %SYSCALL macro statement, CALL SORTC removes the quotation marks from its arguments. For more information, see Using CALL Routines and the %SYSCALL Macro Statement. |
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Syntax |
CALL SORTC(variable-1<, ..., variable-n>) |
specifies a character variable.
Details |
The values of variable are sorted in ascending order by the CALL SORTC routine.
Comparisons |
The CALL SORTC routine is used with character variables, and the CALL SORTN routine is used with numeric variables.
Examples |
The following example sorts the character variables in the array in ascending order.
data _null_; array x(8) $10 ('tweedledum' 'tweedledee' 'baboon' 'baby' 'humpty' 'dumpty' 'banana' 'babylon'); call sortc(of x(*)); put +3 x(*); run;
SAS writes the following output to the log:
baboon baby babylon banana dumpty humpty tweedledee tweedledum
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