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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:10:00 GMT
- Reply-To: Willy Waks <0005400191@MCIMAIL.COM>
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- From: Willy Waks <0005400191@MCIMAIL.COM>
- Subject: Simple Update Request - Reply
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- Machiko Hollifiled writes from Paris:
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- I run the most simple update program. I have variables "prenom" and
- "nom" which
- was inputed using French Keyboard (I assume), in the master file. I created the
- transaction file for which I used American Keyboard, but number of columns for
- each variables are the same. But the updated file has two "prenom" and "nom"
- variables. Is is standard SAS way? I'm very confused.
- Any help is appriciated.
- machiko Hollifield
- it is very confusing to be in France!
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Master data
- OBS PROF PRENOM NOM SEXE MATIERE
- 1 1 Marguerite BOULEVERSIFIANT 2 F
- .... lines cut
- Transaction data
- OBS PROF PRENON NON SEXE MATIERE
- .... line cut
- 1 8 VERT
- Updated data
- ..... lines cut
- PROF PRENOM NOM SEXE MATIERE PRENON NON
- 1 Marguerite BOULEVERSIFIANT 2 F
- 2 G rard DIAFOIRUS 1 E
- 8 1 F Donald
- BONVALET
- **********************************************************************
-
- Machiko:
- I notice that the variables on your original master file are NOM and
- PRENOM (ending with M), while the variables on your transaction file
- are: NON and PRENON (ending with N). Wether you enter this on an
- Azerty or a US keyboard, these are still 4 different variables.
- This should solve your problem quickly. A propos, note that if you
- enter Gerard on an Azerty keyboard (with an accent aigu on the e), and
- Gerard on an US keyboard (no diacritic), an update/merge will not
- yield a match, because they will have unequal ASCII values.
- Last, but not least, since when does the Institut National d'Etudes
- Demographiques perform research on entertainment celebrities ?
- Salutations !
- "Un Parisien a Dallas" (Georges Gershevain)
- <<Errare humanum est... sed perseverare diabolicum !>>
- Willy Waks
- 2W Systems Co., Inc 5430 Alpha Road Suite 200 Dallas TX 75240
- Tel: 214-6618619 Fax: 214-6610130
- Email: wwaks@mcimail.com 73437.344@Compuserve.com
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