By default, -merge- will not overwrite any existing data even if it is
missing values. You need to specify the update option in your merge
command.
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huiber Gabi (nat1gxh)" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: st: weirdness in merging
> Hello all,
>
> My problem should be simple. I have a file A, and two temporary files
"`B'"
> and "`C'".
>
> I have two variables in A, call them a and b, by which I am merging file A
> first with "`B'", then with "`C'". I do so because "`B'" and "`C'" consist
> of four variables each: a, b, c and d. I want to get c and d into A. Files
> "`B'" and "`C'" match separate subsets of the values of a and b, but the
> matches add up exactly to the full set A, so at the end of these two
simple
> merge operations, A should be wider by two non-missing variables: c and d.
>
> It doesn't work, and I don't see why. My code goes like this:
>
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