Re: st: Simple question about sorted datasets

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

At 9:43 PM +0100 9/30/04, Mark Schaffer wrote:
> I want a program to be able to find out if the dataset in memory is
> sorted.  If possible, I also want it to be able to find out what the sort
> variables are.  But I don't want the dataset to get sorted in the process.

You may do this is with the extended macro function sortedby:

loc macname: sortedby

This will place the name of the variable(s) by which the dataset in 
memory is sorted (if any) in the local macro macname ([U] 21.3 
Macros, [P] macro).


-- Phil
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