Re: st: Extracting Numbers from Strings

[jasonm@ucla.edu]

This seems to work well.

> gen y = regexs(1) if regexm(x,".*-([0-9]+)")

> will work if the number after the hyphen is always a positive  
> integer. The same approach can be easily modified to accommodate  
> negative and/or decimal numbers (i.e., by modifying the regular  
> expression).

> -- Phil

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