Accepting and rejecting records
Quick reference
To accept a record whether or not it has been corrected, type:
ac
To terminate the edit and send the record to the tabulation section, type:
rt
To reject the record from the tables but continue the edit, type:
rj
More information
The following commands may be used to determine a record’s path through the remainder of the edit section and the tabulation section:
ac (accept)
Accepts the record up to the point at which the online statement occurs, whether or not it has been corrected. The record continues on through the rest of the edit and will only be re-presented for correction by other online statements or at the end of the edit if other errors are found. Records accepted in this way are written to the clean data file if split or write are used.
rt (return)
Terminates the edit for that record: that is, the record is assumed to have reached the end statement. If split or write has not yet been reached, the record will not be written to the clean data file even though it will be included in any tables produced by the run.
rj (reject)
Rejects the record. The record continues through the edit unless it is terminated with rt. The record is copied to the dirty data file.
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