See -help strfun- and specifically -substr-. In your case you'd use substr(varname,1,2) assuming the digits are always the first two characters.
Cameron.
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[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Patricia Vera
Rojas
Sent: 10 November 2005 15:24
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Subject: st: cut variables
Hi,
I have a string variable with different size:
01 XXX YYY ZZZ
02 XXXX YYY ZZZZZZ
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30 X Z YYYYY
I want to get only the first two digits (01 to 30)
How can I do it?
Thanks,
Patricia
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