Joining tables on fields with varying lengths - response (5) by pjh30

Yeah, I agree that the the method you just posted is the best/most efficient approach and I changed my code to that.  I am an end user, so unfortunately I have no control over the data or the tables.  It would be nice if our IT dept would standardize these fields as they load them into the system so that I don't have to create inefficient work-arounds in SAS when I'm querying TD.