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SASPhile
Quartz | Level 8

 

 

The values in a column could as follows:

 

ColA

a

a;b;c

b;a;c

b;c;a

 

How to reorder the colA like below:

 

ColA

a

a;b;c

a;b;c

a;b;c

 

 

 

 

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Reeza
Super User

If they're all in one variable you need to first separate them and then use CALL SORTC(). 

You can separate them using SCAN() and recombine using CATX(). 

 

Ie

CALL SORTC(var1, var2, var3).

ballardw
Super User

And if anyone earlier made a comment about "why stick multiple values into a single value" you just discovered one of the reasons the question was asked.

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