Date:         Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:57:52 +0300
Reply-To:     Arto Raiskio <arto.raiskio@SUOMENPOSTI.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Arto Raiskio <arto.raiskio@SUOMENPOSTI.COM>
Subject:      Re: merge by produces missing values

"kristian albert"  wrote
> BY TIME;

do a small test on a subset (1000 obs)
create a character variable in each sample data set with the time value,
like "12:10:30"

ie. x = put(thetimevar,time.);

merge by the new character var, ie. 'x'

if the times are precisely the same (including the seconds), they will merge