Ho to sort the data set as per reporting financial year and month

[chanduk]

I have a below datset contains the variables Case_opened_month,Average_days.How will I get the below desired output

Dataset : A
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Case_opened_month       Average_days

APR17                                  10
AUG16                                  20
DEC16                                  30
FEB17                                 4.6
JAN17                                 30
JUL16                                  0
JUN17                                 0
MAR17                               0
MAY17                               40
NOV16                               25
OCT16                              15
SEP16                              35

Desired Output dataset A
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Case_opened_month       Average_days

JUL16                                  0
AUG16                                20
SEP16                                 35
OCT16                               15
NOV16                              25
DEC16                             30
JAN17                             30
FEB17                           4.6
MAR17                           0
APR17                          10
MAY17                          40
JUN17                           0

Regards,

chandu

[ballardw]

Almost anything involving dates works much better if you create a SAS date valued variable. Then sorting is actually by date order plus there are many functions and formats to manipulate the data.

The following code creates a SAS date valued variable you could use to sort the data.

data have;
   set want;
   SASdate = input(case_opened_month,MONYY5.);
   format SASdate  MONYY5.;
run;

proc sort data = want;
   by SASdate;
run;

Note the SASDATE variable created this way will assume a day of the month of 1 for all of the values.

If you use a different FORMAT for SASDATE you can change appearance such as display 04/01/2017, 01APR17 or 01APR2017 or even calendar quarters without adding new variables. The formats can also be used to group values for analysis or summary.