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st: Re Re: How to merge datasets when there are missing values in the matching variables
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"Joseph Coveney" <[email protected]>
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st: Re Re: How to merge datasets when there are missing values in the matching variables
Date
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:32:35 +0900
> I'd strive to make the concatenated ID variable of uniform length, by padding
> the integers with zeros, -string(ID1, "%05.0f")- for example.
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Make that -string(ID1, "%-05.0f")-, or even -string(ID1, "%-5.0f")-.
Joseph Coveney
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