Try using join keylength 4
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:48 AM To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: join of similarly keyed records Hi, I am working with a file in which each record has a four-character key, followed by some text. About 99.8% of the keys are unique, but in the few that are duplicates, I need to replace ALL of the records that have the duplicate key, with ONE record, having the common key, followed by the two or more text fields, with commas between them. For example, from this data: aaaa data1 aaab data1 aaac data1 aaac data2 aaac data3 aaad data1 aaad data2 aaae data 1 aaaf data1 I should get this output: aaaa data1 aaab data1 aaac data1,data2,data3 aaad data1,data2 aaae data 1 aaaf data1 I have tried using UNIQUE SINGLES to send all of the duplicates to a second pipeline for joining, but I don't see how to only join similarly keyed records. Thanks for any help! Shimon -- ************************************************************************ Shimon Lebowitz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] VM System Programmer . Israel Police National HQ. Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972 2 542-9877 fax: 542-9308 ************************************************************************
