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Re: st: Extracting Numbers from Strings
Jason,
Type help substr .
Bob
Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Silver School of Social Work
New York University
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----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:27 pm
Subject: st: Extracting Numbers from Strings
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> I'm trying to extract the first number after a hyphen.
> For example, from x="1234-1" I want to create y=1.
> Thanks.
>
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> * For searches and help try:
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> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
