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Re: st: sort


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: sort
Date   Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:02:59 -0500

At 08:45 PM 6/20/2005 -0400, Luhang Wang wrote:
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]
Also, you might want to look at the -duplicates drop- command.


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