st: sort

[Luhang Wang <luhang@gmail.com>]

Hi to all,

I have some question regarding the use of sort. Would anyone tell me
some potential reasons for getting  different results by running

sort id
drop if id==id[_n-1]

Thanks and best,
Luhang

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