Hi!
You can extract year and month, then sort it:
compute y = xdate.year(datevar).
compute m = xdate.month(datevar).
sort cases by y (d) m (a).
Cheers!!
Albert-Jan
--- On Thu, 4/16/09, Eins Bernardo <
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> I
> already solved that. Thank you for your immediate
> reply.
> One more problem. I want to sort the year in
> descending order while the month in ascending. Can we do
> this?
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> In what way did it fail?
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> How to sort date variable? The date
> is in mm yyyy format? I tried this syntax but it
> failed:
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> SORT
> CASES BY
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> Date3
> (D) .
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> Thanks.
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