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SORTEQOP

Controls whether SAS software passes the EQUALS option to the host sort program by default

Default: SORTEQOP
Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, OPTIONS window
CMS specifics: all

Syntax
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Syntax

SORTEQOP | NOSORTEQOP

SORTEQOP
specifies that SAS should pass the EQUALS option to the host sort program by default.

NOSORTEQOP
specifies that SAS should not pass the EQUALS option by default. Use NOSORTEQOP if your host sort does not support the EQUALS option or if you do not want EQUALS as your default.

Details

The EQUALS option specifies that observations with identical BY variable values are to retain the same relative positions in the output data set as in the input data set. NOEQUALS specifies that this restriction is not necessary.

Either setting of this option can be overridden by specifying the EQUALS or NOEQUALS option in the PROC SORT statement.


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