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pavank
Quartz | Level 8

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Good Evening

How to get sorted  datasets and notsorted datasets  list  in a library

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Kathryn_SAS
SAS Employee

I am not sure if this is what you are asking, but in the output data set from PROC CONTENTS there is a SORTED variable. It will have a value of 1 if the data set is sorted or missing (.) if it is not. Here is a simple example.

proc sort data=sashelp.class out=class;
by age;
run;

proc sort data=sashelp.cars out=cars;
by type;
run;

data test;
x=1;
run;

proc contents data=work._all_ noprint out=allds(keep=libname memname sorted);
run;

data allds;
set allds;
by libname memname;
if first.memname then output;
run;

proc print data=allds;
run;
Quentin
Super User

Looks like you can pull this from dictionary.tables:

 

proc sql ;
  select memname, sortname, sorttype, sortchar
  from dictionary.tables 
  where libname="WORK" 
  ;
quit ;

See also this thread, which uses dictionary.columns : 
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Keeping-the-defined-sortedby-values-in-the-metadata/t...

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