Hi...
I would like to specify a command to tell me the position in a string of the
first character that is not a space. Example:
" one" would yield 1
" two" would yield 2
" three" would yield 3
and so on...
Just so you know why in the world I'd want to do this, the number of spaces
determines hierarchy in my dataset. I was thinking of using the index
function, but I'm not sure how to specify 'not a space' for the second
argument.
thanks in advance.
Mart�n Rio
Charles River Associates
Washington, DC
phone: (202) 662-3957
fax: (202) 662-3910
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