Date:         Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:19:37 -0500
Reply-To:     "Hart, Janetze" <HartJ@BEAT1.SPJC.CC.FL.US>
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From:         "Hart, Janetze" <HartJ@BEAT1.SPJC.CC.FL.US>
Subject:      Re: funky merge results... BY statement
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I knew the problem would be obvious if I showed it to somebody else!
Several have written to remind me of the BY statement.  I am much relieved
because the thing that was making me nuts was that despite the print
output, my program was behaving right otherwise.  I realized when I duped
the top of the PROC MERGE in order to print what it was doing, that I
neglected to dupe the BY line. Not a good sign when my debugging has bugs
in it!  Thanks to Clinton Rickards, Matthew Zack, and Susanne Daood for the
quick and helpful responses.
 
--Janetze
 
 
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>>From:         HartJ@beat1.spjc.cc.fl.us[SMTP:HartJ@beat1.spjc.cc.fl.us]
>>Sent:         Thu, Feb 13, 1997 8:07 am
>>To:   SAS-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>>Subject:      funky merge results...
>>
>>I merged two data sets (TESTING and REC2ERRS) and when I happened to print
>>the results, I found something troublesome.   In the last 3 records, the
>>variables from the TESTING dataset appear to be blanked out.  See SCORE and
>>TESTSITE displayed below.  From looking at INTEST, it appears to be
>>skipping the end of the TESTING file.  I limited the variables printed to
>>simplify this note.  It gets curiouser and curiouser though--When I tried
>>to limit the records in the test data set (down to the last 6), the problem
>>disappeared.  The log indicates no errors or even warnings.  Can anybody
>>tell me what is going on here?
>>
>>Thanks in Advance
>>
>>--Janetze                             ^  _  ^
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