Hi everyone.
Please I need help with proc contents;
I'm trying to view the content of a data set.
proc contents data=want;
run;
In the output, the heading says Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes, however, the variables were not arranged alphabetically.
Thank you.
In the collating sequence of the ASCII code, capital letters appear before lowercase letters. That's why it's not a good idea to mix cases in variable names, unless you use it for specific reasons (i.e. I used it to separate variables coming in from the production DB (uppercase) vs. those created in the data warehouse during the ETL process (lowercase))
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Okay, thank you
In the collating sequence of the ASCII code, capital letters appear before lowercase letters. That's why it's not a good idea to mix cases in variable names, unless you use it for specific reasons (i.e. I used it to separate variables coming in from the production DB (uppercase) vs. those created in the data warehouse during the ETL process (lowercase))
You can use the option "order":
proc contents data=want order=ignorecase;
run;
This worked too; thank you sir.
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