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PrinceAde
Obsidian | Level 7

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.

 
 
 

 

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

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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PrinceAde
Obsidian | Level 7

 

Okay, thank you

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

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))

andreas_lds
PROC Star

You can use the option "order":

 

proc contents data=want order=ignorecase;

run;

 

PrinceAde
Obsidian | Level 7

This worked too; thank you sir.

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