Date:         Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:29:14 -0800
Reply-To:     FPAStatman <brentvtimothy@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         FPAStatman <brentvtimothy@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: merge and length problem urgent please
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I don't fully understand what you are trying to do.  The first data
set has a value of a, since you restricted the length of the string to
1, while the second has the full 10 chars.  If you are trying to merge
based on this, it will never work, as the by variables should be the
same.  You could try creating a substring for the second set, and
match them that way, but you must assume that the substrings still
identify the unique values.