st: converting bracketed to continuos values

[Nahid.Tabatabai@Dartmouth.EDU (Nahid Tabatabai)]

I have an account balance variable with bracketed values for some of the observations. I need to convert those bracket values to continuos values. What is the best way of doing that? What type of regression I can use for this variable? It's the dependent variable.    

Thanks in advance,
NT
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