Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:25:54 -0400
Reply-To:     msz03@albany.edu
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From:         Mike Zdeb <msz03@ALBANY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Dynamic column ordering
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ni ...

so ... what is the correct order ???

if there's a rule, you could most likely get SAS to write the RETAIN statement for you
based on the data used each month

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> I've created a report that results from a transpose of year/month.  Since the columns look like the following:  200701 200702.....200909 they are
> not coming out in the correct order.  I don't want to hard-code a retain statement in because I don't want to have to update the statement every
> month.  What is a good way of correctly ording the columns?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>