Thank you so much for this RudiC. After a quick test, initial indications are that that did the trick and I can run it through a printf to take care of the formatting.
In two previous posts (here (https://www.unix.com/unix-for-beginners-questions-and-answers/276304-match-fields-between-two-files-print-portions-each-file-together-when-matched-g-awk.html)) and (here...