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COLLATE

COLLATE

Generates an EBCDIC collating sequence character string

CMS specifics: EBCDIC collating sequence

Syntax
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Syntax

COLLATE (start-character <,end-character> <,length>)

start-character: is an integer that corresponds to the beginning character in a sequence.
end-character: is an integer that corresponds to the last character in a sequence. If you omit end-character, you must mark its place with a comma.
length: is the number of characters specified in a string.

Under CMS, the COLLATE function returns a string of characters from the EBCDIC collating sequence. Some operating environments return the corresponding character in the ASCII collating sequence for this function.

If neither the end character nor the length is specified, COLLATE returns a character string up to 200 characters long. If both the end character and the length are specified, the length is ignored.

See Also

SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

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