The SET and RETAIN statements are in the wrong order.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:02 AM, DaDoctor
<brett.a.summers@bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> Fellow Members:
>
> I am working ordering a SAS dataset and thought I could use the retain
> statement for this purpose.
>
> However, the process is bombing.
>
> syntax:
>
> data temp_dset;
>  set out.perm_dset;
>   retain var1 var2.........;
>
> run;
>
>
> suggestions on what I am doing wrong?
>