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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!SWIRL.MONSANTO.COM!GIBES
  3. Message-ID: <9207290114.AA19760@tin.monsanto.com>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l
  5. Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:14:07 -0500
  6. Reply-To:     Kernon Gibes <gibes@SWIRL.MONSANTO.COM>
  7. Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.BITNET>
  8. From:         Kernon Gibes <gibes@SWIRL.MONSANTO.COM>
  9. Subject:      RE: writing variable names to external file
  10. Comments: To: SAS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu@tin.monsanto.com
  11. Comments: cc: GIBES@tin.monsanto.com
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  13.  
  14.  CONTENT:   Question on a question
  15.  SUMMARY:   Why should TRANSPOSE skip variable names?
  16.  REL/PLTF:  not applicable (fyi - that's RELease / Platfrom )
  17.  E-ADDR:    gibes@swirl.monsanto.com
  18.  NAME:      Kernon Gibes
  19.  PHONE:     (708) 506-2873
  20.  DATE/TIME: 28 July 1992, 8:22 p.m. CDT
  21.  
  22. Steve Wickham wrote:
  23.  
  24. <stuff deleted>
  25. >due to the transpose.  The transposed variables all have the same prefix, but
  26. >the also have a number that ranges between 0 - 99, but not consecutively.
  27. >Confused? An example:
  28. >DATE RIVER SITE ORDER1 ORDER3 ORDER5 ORDER17 ORDER9 ORDER85
  29. <stuff deleted>
  30.  
  31. Sorry Steve but I'm less interested in your original question than in
  32. why TRANSPOSE would be doing this (besides you already have a couple of
  33. fine answeres).   In my experience, TRANSPOSE doesn't skip variables but
  34. of course if you look at a CONTENTS ORDER17 comes before ORDER9, etc.
  35. However, this wouldn't explain what happened to ORDER2 assuming your
  36. example was completely real.  Anyway, I would be interested in knowing
  37. what TRANSPOSE code gives rise to this behavior.   TIA.
  38.