Good point. In Stata 7 and 8 you can
get there in one
di "`: sortedby'"
which shows nothing if Stata is unaware of
a sort order.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Kit Baum
> Sent: 04 November 2004 15:05
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: sorting order
>
>
> Barbara asked
> And second, is there any command (e.g. assert) in order to check the
> sort sequence and only in case of being unsorted sorts the data?
>
> Nick Cox' reply indicated that unneeded sorts would not be performed.
> But this part of her question remains, and it might be useful to know
> how to do this:
>
> . sort foreign rep78
>
> . local sorted: sortedby
>
> . di "`sorted'"
> foreign rep78
>
> whelp extended_fcn for the gory details.
>
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