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Cathie
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I have a table that lists all emails assigned to particular listings. There can be one email or many emails....I need to concatenate all emails associated to each unique listing address so that I can pull in the concatenated field into a larger report.

I tried this using this method:

COMPUTE VALUE/A1000V = IF PROV_LOCATION_ID EQ LAST PROV_LOCATION_ID THEN ADDRESS || SUBSTR(1000, LAST VALUE, 1, 775, 775, 'A775') ELSE ADDRESS;

however, I'm seeing every iteration of the concatenate and not just the final one in the hold file.

How can I get a table with just one instance of the final concatenation?

Thanks,
Cathie


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N.Selph
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are you doing a
 
SUM 
COMPUTE VALUE......
BY PROV_LOCATION_ID


If you SUM and not PRINT you should get one VALUE per PROV_LOCATION_ID


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Danny-SRL
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Cathie,

It depends if your file is sorted by PROV_LOCATION_ID or not.

If it is here is an example using the CAR file:
  
DEFINE FILE CAR
MODELS/A200=IF CAR EQ LAST CAR THEN MODEL || ' ' | SUBSTR(1000, LAST MODELS, 1, 170, 170, 'A170') ELSE MODEL; 
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM LST.MODELS
BY CAR
END


If it isn't then you can do the following:
  
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
MODEL
COMPUTE MODELS/A200=IF CAR EQ LAST CAR THEN MODEL || ' ' | SUBSTR(1000, LAST MODELS, 1, 170, 170, 'A170') ELSE MODEL; 
BY CAR
ON TABLE HOLD
END
TABLE FILE HOLD
SUM LST.MODELS
BY CAR
END


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quote:
COMPUTE VALUE/A1000V = IF PROV_LOCATION_ID EQ LAST PROV_LOCATION_ID THEN ADDRESS || SUBSTR(1000, LAST VALUE, 1, 775, 775, 'A775') ELSE ADDRESS;


Do you want any kind of a break between addresses? This would read better if you changed the compute to:

COMPUTE VALUE/A1000V=IF PROV_LOCATION_ID EQ LAST PROV_LOCATION_ID THEN ADDRESS || '; ' | SUBSTR(1000, LAST VALUE, 1, 775, 775, 'A775') ELSE ADDRESS;

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Thanks, Danny. Your suggestion worked perfectly!

Cathie


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Danny-SRL
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Cathie,

You are welcome. Will you be coming to the summit in Nashville? I shall be there.


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Cathie
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I wish I could be there....there's so much to learn. This forum has been a huge help though.
I'm hoping the "powers that be" will allow us to go next year!

Thanks again.


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