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Roy Ware

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 10:18 pm
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I'm being held hostage by two database tables who refuse to compromise. One table has the City Name in Mixed Case letters: El Paso, for example. The second has the City Name in Uppercase letters: EL PASO.

The goal is to summarize the dollar amount field for each city, regardless of the case, with the mixed case being the desirable output, but showing the uppercase name in case a "matching" lowercase is not available.

Here's the data:
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Mattoon                277.86
MATTOON                179.02
Charleston             801.13
POPLAR GROVE           354.03


The desired output is:
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Mattoon                 456.88
Charleston              801.13
POPLAR GROVE            354.03


Of course, nothing like this has been attempted here before, so there aren't any examples and the SyncSort manual isn't much help. Any suggestions?
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enrico-sorichetti

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 10:26 pm
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just overlay/build an additional field with the content of the key upper/lower cased for matching
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Bill Woodger

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 10:54 pm
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As enrico said, "normalise" the name in a temporary extension. SORT on that name. You'll also need to discriminate between upper/mixed, so that you can favour the mixed when both are present (a second field to include an indicator for mixed/upper so you can "outsort" the upper).

Exactly how you do that depends on the quality of your data. If you can have embedded typos...?

Whether SyncSort has TRAN= or some other built-in way to convert case is another issue.
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Roy Ware

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 11:40 pm
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Yes, the field can have embedded typos - why can't we hold the front-ends to the same standards we have to match? - but Enrico's suggestion is going to work great!
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