Jason,
gen y = substr(x,1,1)
destring y, replace
should do it.
Robert
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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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