The matcher may sometimes combine entries with different source ids (e.g., two different HMIS system ids) into a single matched entity. When it does this, the results page (and the export) shows a string concatenation of these ids with a comma delimiter (e.g., "000001,000002"). When software tools read in the export, they may ignore commas in otherwise numeric-appearing columns. To force tools to read these columns as text, we can use a different delimiter (e.g., ";").
The matcher may sometimes combine entries with different source ids (e.g., two different HMIS system ids) into a single matched entity. When it does this, the results page (and the export) shows a string concatenation of these ids with a comma delimiter (e.g., "000001,000002"). When software tools read in the export, they may ignore commas in otherwise numeric-appearing columns. To force tools to read these columns as text, we can use a different delimiter (e.g., ";").