User`s guide

E-Prime User’s Guide
Chapter 5: Data Handling
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A violation of the second rule is even more rare because E-Run logs all variables, with the
exception of subject and session number, as string data. This situation would occur only if a
variable of an integer or float data type was created in the data file using E-DataAid and then the
user attempted to merge the data file into a target file that already had a string variable with the
same name.
Before merging a data file into a target file, E-Merge checks for these incompatibilities. In the
event that an incompatibility is discovered, E-Merge alerts the user as to the conflict and offers
the opportunity to take one of the following three actions:
1. Skip the file and continue with the merge operation.
2. Stop the merge operation at the point of the conflict.
3. Stop and undo the merge operation altogether.