Just -destring- the ID that is in character format and then merge.
.destring id, replace
Sarah
Jeff NASTERNAK wrote:
Hello,
I have a problem with merging two seperate files by their ID. My problem
is that the one set of ID is in a numeric format and the other is in a
character format. How do I go about merging these files?
thank you
Jeff
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