On Nov 28, 2007 1:03 PM, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007 11:48 AM, Shimon Lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am working with a file in which each record has > > a four-character key, followed by some text. > > join keylength 4
In my attempt to be the first to respond, I missed a detail of two... ;-) join keylength 5 /,/ makes sure the blank that separates key and data is considered part of the key, so the data portion has no blank in front of it (and the comma gets in between to complete what you asked for). Rob