Ilaria
-substr- should do what you need. So, assuming you always have 4 digits followed by two characters in variable str, try substr(str,1,4) for the digits and substr(str,-1,2) for the characters. See help strfun.
Cameron.
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Sent: 17 October 2005 14:43
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Subject: st: Splitting a string variable
I am dealing with a string variable that has 4 figures and 2 letters,
something like this: 1234AB
As you can see there is no space, or comma, etc. divinding the figures
from the letters.
What I wanna do is to create a new variable where I only keep the
figures and drop the letters. How can I do that? Does the command SPLIT
help me in this?
Thank you very much.
Ilaria
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