Merge overlapping anchors

I'd like to join same position points (of a few independent paths). Here I'd found a script: http://park12.wakwak.com/~shp/lc/et/en_aics_script.html#merge, but don't know why it's not working... Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

the script does not "join" path points, it "merges" path points. What SATO Hiroyuki means is that if two points on the same path are close enough to each other or overlapped, one of them will be removed.
one of those two will be removed if they're within the value hard coded in line 25.

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Screenshots below:
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Unite is very helpful (thanks Steve) and sometimes cleans up the path completely. There are still times when Simplify adds a whole bunch of points to what seems to be a clean curve. Unite then helps to clean up the mess, but there are often extra points which create kinks or loops in the path. They are easy to miss as you have to zoom right in to spot them.
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Thanks for the script link, Jesseham. I must look into using scripts more to simplify routine tasks.
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theraaf,
I apologize for the figure of speech (end of the line).
What I meant was: You can only join two paths end to end, by end Anchor Points.
It sounds as if you are trying to join the end point (or an inner point) of one path to an inner point of the other, like a road junction or a crossing, and that is impossible.
There can only be two segments from each Anchor Point.

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but when I try to fill the color won't extend to the whole area. To reproduce the
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Thank you for your replies, I found them helpful, although I still think
the options 1 and 2 come down to a bit of buggy code which hopefully
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it behaves that way, perhaps I am missing something about paths and fills.
I wouldn't say there's anything buggy going on, but the way you are building a vector object is definitely not typical and reveals some awkward/confusing behavior. The important thing to understand is that:
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