https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/proc-print/m-p/287196#M59055 <P>"decreasing" is not a SAS keyword, therefore SAS assumes it is a variable name.</P> <P>You probably meant "descending".</P> <P>It is very helpful to read the documentation:</P> <P><A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000202968.htm" target="_blank">BY Statement</A></P> Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:00:06 GMT Kurt_Bremser 2016-07-26T14:00:06Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/proc-print/m-p/287177#M59051 <P>hi,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Proc print data=Nz noobs;<BR />By decreasing Probability;<BR />id Probability;<BR />Var Client Champ Modified Tot_Budget Digi_Budget;<BR />sum Tot_Budget Digi_Budget;<BR />run;</P><P>&nbsp;error :ERROR: Variable DECREASING not found.??</P><P>what should be the code ?</P> Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:28:24 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/proc-print/m-p/287177#M59051 Prateek1 2016-07-26T13:28:24Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/proc-print/m-p/287196#M59055 <P>"decreasing" is not a SAS keyword, therefore SAS assumes it is a variable name.</P> <P>You probably meant "descending".</P> <P>It is very helpful to read the documentation:</P> <P><A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000202968.htm" target="_blank">BY Statement</A></P> Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:00:06 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/proc-print/m-p/287196#M59055 Kurt_Bremser 2016-07-26T14:00:06Z