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Re: st: Question on data manipulation


From   William Pratt <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Question on data manipulation
Date   Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:33:37 -0500

Did the job! Thanks Matt :)

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Matthew White
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> If cusip is an integer and has numeric type:
> replace cusip = int(cusip / 10)
>
> If cusip has string type:
> replace cusip = substr(cusip, 1, length(cusip) - 1)
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 5:42 PM, William Pratt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Statalisters,
>> I have the following string data of 9 characters and would like to
>> drop the last value so that it becomes 8 characters. Thanks for your
>> consideration.
>>
>> cusip
>> 000360206                  >>>                           00036020
>> 000360206                  >>>                           00036020
>> 000360206                  >>>                           00036020
>> 000360206                  >>>                           00036020
>> 000360206                  >>>                           00036020
>> 000361105                  >>>                           00036110
>> 000361105                  >>>                           00036110
>> 000361105                  >>>                           00036110
>> 000361105                  >>>                           00036110
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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