https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/order-in-data-step/m-p/497615#M131943 <P>Do you have some context for these questions? They're fairly vague and most can be answered by reading the documentation or some basic searches.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/234925">@clqa</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /> <P>does the order matter in the data step? if so, for what?</P> <HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 23:12:44 GMT Reeza 2018-09-20T23:12:44Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/order-in-data-step/m-p/497594#M131928 <P>does the order matter in the data step? if so, for what?</P> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 22:31:38 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/order-in-data-step/m-p/497594#M131928 clqa 2018-09-20T22:31:38Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/order-in-data-step/m-p/497609#M131940 <P>are you asking about the order of the data or the order of your statements.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000131184.htm" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000131184.htm</A></P> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 23:02:17 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/order-in-data-step/m-p/497609#M131940 VDD 2018-09-20T23:02:17Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/order-in-data-step/m-p/497615#M131943 <P>Do you have some context for these questions? They're fairly vague and most can be answered by reading the documentation or some basic searches.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/234925">@clqa</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /> <P>does the order matter in the data step? if so, for what?</P> <HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 23:12:44 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/order-in-data-step/m-p/497615#M131943 Reeza 2018-09-20T23:12:44Z