st: Substr not working anymore in Stata 10

[Diego Canales <dcanales@berkeley.edu>]

Hi everyone,

I was just recently looking at the thread "Splitting string variables  
without parse strings" and the command that works for this task, which  
is the same problem I have, substr, doesn't seem to be working anymore  
for Stata 10. If I type help substr, an explanation still appears, but  
when I run the following:

gen hrs_inicio= substr (chorainici, 1,2)

Stata gives me a: substr not found.

chorainici is a 4 digit string variable, such as 1416, and I need the  
first two digits in a new variable.

Thanks,
Diego
---------------------------------------------------------------
Diego Canales
Master of City Planning | MCP'11
University of California at Berkeley

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/