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Enigma006
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Hai

I am trying to join two tabled with common field but they are having different formats, alpha numeric (A20V) and text (TX50). Actually its a number. I converted A20V to I11 but could not succeed converting TX50 to either alphanumeric or integer.

Can someone help me on this?

And also..WF doesn't handle many-to-many join I believe. Is this right? Any alternative for this?

Thanks

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GinnyJakes
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This is what I would do. Convert the A20V to A20 and extract the data and hold it. Convert the TX50 to A20 and hold it. Join the two hold files together.

M:M can be done with MATCH FILE syntax.


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Francis Mariani
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If you're joining two tables using virtual fields (DEFINE), only the host table's field can be virtual, the cross-referenced tables field must be real.

Instead of trying to make both fields numeric, why not define a field in the host file to have the same format of the field in the cross-reference file?
HOST_ALPHA_JOIN_FIELD/TX50 = HOST_AV_FIELD;


Example of converting an AV field to TX - you require an intermediary alpha field:
DEFINE FILE CAR
CAR1/A20V = CAR;
CAR2/A20 = CAR1;
CAR3/TX50 = CAR2;
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT 
CAR
CAR1
CAR2
CAR3
BY COUNTRY
END

CAR3 would be the host field to JOIN with the cross-reference field.


Francis


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Waz
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For a many to many, you could use a conditional join, with out the condition.

http://documentation.informati.../source/topic158.htm


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Doug
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Good points Ginny, Francis, and Waz,
First, the concepts:
1) JOIN on COMMON FIELDS.
2) Different formats makes them NOT COMMON.
3) HOLD them, then JOIN them.
4) Consider the other suggestions above.
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I am trying to join two tabled with common field but they are having different formats




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PBrightwell
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I seem to remember that you can not sort or join on a TX field. So you will have to convert it to alphanumeric first.


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