Date:         Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:50:42 +0000
Reply-To:     John Whittington <medisci@POWERNET.COM>
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From:         John Whittington <medisci@POWERNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Reordering variables in a new data set
Comments: To: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@AECOM.YU.EDU>
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At 10:27 15/01/99 -0500, Victor Kamensky wrote:
>There is another way!
>Not a big difference, but LABEL can be used instead of RETAIN.
 
Well, true - but that's a very tedious method - and assumes that you
actually know what the labels have to be!
As far as I can recall, you can also achieve the same with ATTRIB or ARRAY
statements (as well as LENGTH and RETAIN), provided they appear before the
SET statement - but in all cases are usually more tedious to use than the
(completely 'harmless', despite myths) RETAIN statement.
 
Regards,
 
John
 
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