Re: st: sort a list

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 04:57 AM 1/19/2006, Lia Orfei wrote:
> yes I tried this first thing but it didnt work.
> Thanks anyway, any other ideas?
>
> Tom Trikalinos wrote:
>
> > sort colour id
> > by colour:  list id names age
How about

bysort colour (id): list id names age

See the help for by.


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