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Golf
Quartz | Level 8

Hello,  

   I have the following data set.

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How do I sort the data based on the Capacity which is the string variable?  (I want to order descending capacity)

I tried the following codes, but it provide the same output:

proc sort data= stats2 SORTSEQ= LINGUISTIC  ;
by capacity;
run;

 Thank You.

 

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FreelanceReinh
Jade | Level 19

Hello @Golf,

 

Just add the collating option NUMERIC_COLLATION=ON:

proc sort data=stats2 sortseq=linguistic(numeric_collation=on);

 

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ketpt42
Quartz | Level 8
You're probably better off extracting the number out of your Capacity column using the scan function instead of trying to do a linguistic sort.
smantha
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
Linguistic sort is a dictionary order meaning 10 -19 comes right after 1.
FreelanceReinh
Jade | Level 19

Hello @Golf,

 

Just add the collating option NUMERIC_COLLATION=ON:

proc sort data=stats2 sortseq=linguistic(numeric_collation=on);

 

Golf
Quartz | Level 8
Thank you so much.
Bests,

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