Re: st: extract middle of string

["jean ries" <jean.ries.l@gmail.com>]

This should do the job:

gen newx = substr(x,2,length(x)-3)



On 10/24/06, Ronnie Babigumira <rb.glists@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a string variable that looks like this
>
>             x
>   161011000AT
>   161011000CN
> 1610110012CN
>
>
> I am interested in what lies between the first and the last two characters
>
> I could have used
>
> gen str10 = subst(x, 2, 8) but that would not work for the last observation. How can I simply drop the first character,
> and last two charters in x
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