Duplicated non-alphanumeric values in idvar crashes ieduplicates without helpful error

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Duplicated non-alphanumeric values in idvar crashes ieduplicates without helpful error

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 3 comments

To store information about all duplicate pairs it creates locals on the format difflist_id where id is replaced with the duplicated value. This was discovered in a data set with duplicated id values . (Probably imported from csv/excel with missing value as numeric and then made string during append). That made the command trying to create a local named difflist_. which is not a valid local name.

Answer 1 · 2022-02-10T10:47:27.000Z

The solution is probably to try to use the information the command currently store in the difflist_id local right way instead of storing it there.

Answer 2 · 2022-02-10T10:56:52.000Z

The solution to the issue #172 (handling long IDs) also solves this.

Answer 3 · 2022-02-10T10:57:29.000Z

Closing as this is a duplicate issue and the issue is already solved but not yet published