Cheers, Nick: noted. :)
> Glad the problem is solved.
>
> To rename variable names to omit � (pound) characters,
> one possibility is -renvars- (STB-60, -search renvars-)
>
> . renvars, subst(� _)
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Clive Nicholas
>
>> Good news! My -joinby- problem was sorted out: simply by running the
>> commands as I did over the weekend, they worked!! :-)
>
> ...
>
>> I'm going to remove my pound signs from my datasets lest any
>> program-error risks and the like occur in the future.
>
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Yours,
CLIVE NICHOLAS,
Politics Building,
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology,
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
NE1 7RU,
United Kingdom.
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