Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 06:52:43 +0100
Reply-To: John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
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From: John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
Subject: Re: Any changes made to the working file since 17-AUG-2007
15:19:58 have been
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Serena
If there are the same number of cases in each file and your cases in both
files are in the same case order, merging shouldn't be a problem. Do they
have a case ID? If not you should create one by something like:
compute serial = $casenum.
That way you can keep track of your cases.
As a check on strings, have you tried using AUTORECODE (page 229 of the
syntax reference guide obtained from Help) to convert your strings to
numeric? A frequency count can then pick up slight variations in the
original strings such as typos and extra spaces which may need to be
corrected if you are using them as sorting keys.
John F Hall
johnfhall@orange.fr
www.surveyresearch.weebly.com
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Sent: 04 November 2011 03:36
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Subject: Re: Any changes made to the working file since 17-AUG-2007 15:19:58
have been
Dear Martha,
Thank you very much for your reply.
You are right, and thanks so much for confirming that this is not because of
any bug.
It is indeed related to sorting/merging files, mainly cause my key variable
is a string variable, and there are some many-to-many search/merge situation
that occurred....Will need to find the correct way to sort the string
variables to avoid the error message.
Thank you once again and have a good weekend.
serena
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