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SRC
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I know I've seen this before but can't seem to get back to it.

I have a table with student_id and course_id like this:

quote:

PAGE 1

PERSON_UID CRS_ID
00021572 MAT 000
MAT 112
MAT 119
MAT 191

01038239 MAT 000
MAT 115



I need to print all the courses as a string field like this:

quote:

PERSON_UID ALL_MATH_COURSES
00021572 MAT 000 MAT 112 MAT 119 MAT 191
01038239 MAT 000 MAT 115



Thanks......Steve

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Doug
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Here's my first thought: COMPUTE (or DEFINE) a field which concatenates NewField/A132 = ThisField | LAST ThisField ; and so on...
 
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jfr99
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Hi Steve,

Here's an example using the CAR file. This creates a string (CAR_LIT) of all CARs per COUNTY.

-*
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE HOLD AS TMP_CAR
END
-*
DEFINE FILE TMP_CAR
CAR_LIT/A90 = IF COUNTRY EQ LAST COUNTRY
THEN SUBSTR(90, CAR_LIT, 1, 72, 72, 'A72') || (', ' | CAR)
ELSE CAR;
END
-*
TABLE FILE TMP_CAR
SUM CAR_LIT
BY COUNTRY
END

Maybe this will help.

Jim


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SRC
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Jim,

That worked perfectly!

I had started looking at string functions but figured by the time I went through all the iterations, someone would have the answer already.

Thanks a bunch............Steve

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jfr99
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Hi Steve,

Glad it worked.

I save little examples like this so I can use them the next time I need it.

~Jim


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