Rob, Thank you very much, and in the end you were the first anyway. This just shows me AGAIN that I need to remember PIPE AHELP and not to trust HELP PIPE, which has no mention of this feature of JOIN.
It did the trick perfectly! :-) Shimon Quoting Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 >
