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<Pietro De Santis>
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I have two columns that begin with the same set of characters. I use an Across to create a HOLD file. Both columns end up having the same name. How do I prevent this?

Here's an example:

SET ASNAMES=ON

TABLE FILE EDUCFILE
SUM
COURSE_CODE
COURSE_NAME
ACROSS EMP_ID
ON TABLE HOLD AS H1
END
TABLE FILE H1
PRINT *
END

I thought SET FIELDNAME=NEW might do it (NEW is the default), but this did not work.
 
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TexasStingray
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I'm not sure if you can prevent this. you can issue a ? HOLD H1 and this will show you what layout (Fieldname, ALIAS and format) you can reference each field by there alias.

Example: PRINT E01 E02 etc...

Hope this helps
 
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David Briars
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Hi Pietro,

Try adding the 'AS' phrase to each verb object:

Adding the following code to your report: 

COURSE_CODE AS CODE<br />COURSE_NAME AS NAME
Yields:


CODE071382660 NAME071382660
------------- -------------
101 FILE DESCRPT & MAINT
Regards,
Dave

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<Pietro De Santis>
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Thank you.

This technique only works if the ACROSS column is less than 12 characters long.
 
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susannah
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but so way better than it used to be. i think the lim was 6, and it would give you
COD001 COD002 COD003... , which wasn't bad really, Big Grin
 
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<Pietro De Santis>
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In the brave new world we're living in, it should be 66.
 
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