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RANK

RANK

Returns the position of a character in the ASCII collating sequence

Language element: function

Category: character

OpenVMS specifics: ASCII collating sequence

Syntax
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See Also

Syntax

RANK(x)

x: represents a character in the ASCII collating sequence.

Because OpenVMS is an ASCII system, the RANK function returns an integer representing the position of a character in the ASCII collating sequence. If the length of x is greater than 1, you receive the rank of the first character in the string.

See Also

RANK function in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

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