Re: st: isolating characters in the middle of a long number

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

Try this (untested):

gen byte newvar = mod(int(oldvar/10000), 100)

I hope this helps.
--David

At 06:13 PM 8/31/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> Numeric, I believe.
>
> Thanks,
> Kenley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>
> 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.
> >
> > 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
> > >[...]
>
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