Create the ordered lists of countries and periods from the multiple choices prompt in the client SAS EG project (similar to SAS EG version prior to 4.1).

%_egp_geotime(_time_=, _geo_=, pmultipl=yes);

Arguments

_geo_ : name of the variable associated to the geo prompt, i.e. the one returned from the selection of a list of countries/zones; a prompt with this name must exist;
_time_ : (option) name of the variable associated to the time prompt, i.e. the one returned from the selection of periods/years for calculation; a prompt with this name must exist;
pmultipl : (option) boolean flag (yes/no) set for multiple option selection; default: pmultipl=yes.

Returns

in &_time_, the ordered list of periods;
in &_geo_, the updated list of countries/zones, where the zones appear at the end.

Example

Given the following prompt (with multiple selections) and the corresponding selections:

where the names of the prompt have been set respectively (from top to bottom, highlighted in red) to geo and time, the call:

%_egp_geotime(_time_=time, _geo_=geo, pmultipl=yes);

will return: geo=BE CY AT EU28 (DUMMY not selected and EU28 put at the end of the list) and time=2004 2005 2010 2012 2013 2014 (list ordered).

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