---bill lam wrote:
> I would first trim all trailing spaces in pinv, test if 
> length of any column in pinv is greater than that of pplinv, 
> then there must be no match, otherwise adjust the length pinv 
> as what you did and do comparison.
> eg.
>    +./ (dtb&.>p3) >&({:@$&>) pplinv
> 1
> so that no match.
> 

I was thinking along those lines to start with, but I don't think it
works if you are looking up more than 1 person at once (e.g p2,:each
p3). If one name is too long, then there will be no match.

  pplinv tindexof1 p,:each p3
4 501
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