Dear all,
I have a string identifier variable of the form:
id
"LOCALITY_NAMED_ABCD 001"
"LOCALITY_NAMED_F 060"
"HOUSTON 078"
"SAN ANTONIO 112"
The variable id thus has both the name of the locality
in question (say, HOUSTON), and an identifying code
(say, 078).
How can I generate a new variable, idcode, that only
captures the numeric component of id, so that, I get,
for the above 4 cases, the values below:
idcode
1
60
78
112
Thanks for your advice.
Solange.
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