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7.1 PROCEDURE STEPS

Procedures are predefined program to perform specific task. Procedures are used to perform analysis
and generate reports.

All procedures start with keyword proc and follow procedure name like PROC SORT, PROC PRINT etc.
Most of the procedures end with RUN keyword but few ends with QUIT keyword.

Conventions:
Dsn dataset name
Newdsn new dataset name
Varlist multiple variable list

Numeric varlist only numeric variable
Presorted varlist variables of sorted datasets

7.2 PROC SORT:

Proc sort is used to sort the dataset in ascending order or in descending order according to by statement
variable .Default storing data is ascending.

SYNTAX:

Proc sort data=dsn out=newdsn;
By varlist;
Run;

Program 7.1:

Output:

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