Numeric, I believe.
Thanks,
Kenley
----- Original Message -----
From: David Kantor <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:57 pm
Subject: Re: st: isolating characters in the middle of a long number
> This is not hard, but first tell us whether the type of original
> value is
> string or numeric.
> -- David
>
> At 05:21 PM 8/31/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >I have a variable that is a number of about 10 characters, and I
> need to
> >create a variable that is the 5th and 6th character of the longer
> >variable. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could do this?
> >
> >Thank you very much for your help.
> >
> >Kenley
> >[...]
>
> David Kantor
> Institute for Policy Studies
> Johns Hopkins University
> [email protected]
> 410-516-5404
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