Date:         Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:47:39 -0400
Reply-To:     Jason Kirkland <Jason.Kirkland@ORCMACRO.COM>
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From:         Jason Kirkland <Jason.Kirkland@ORCMACRO.COM>
Subject:      Re: A Puzzle!
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At 01:31 PM 8/2/02 -0400, Libin XU wrote:
>Dear list members,
>         I have a question that I hope someone can give me an answer. I am
>using version 10
>to run a frequency analyses. I have the following commands:
>       sort cases by schnam level.
>       split file by schnam level.
>       fre var=readpr mathpr/stat=median.
>       split file off.
>         The sysntax seems logic to me, but, I don't know why, the resulted
>table have the level
>order of 2, 6, 4 instead of 2, 4, 6. The level is a string variable. Can
>somebody solve the puzzle for me? Thank you in advance.
>
>Libin Xu

Since your level is string my guess is your data is not as clean as you
think it is.  For example if your 2s and 6s have a leading zero, this would
give you an order of 2, 6, 4.