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st: Generating a new var from last 11 character in a string
From
lars Folkestad <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Generating a new var from last 11 character in a string
Date
Sat, 14 Dec 2013 23:53:29 +0100
Dear listers
I want to do generate a new var from the last 11 character of a string variable. I normally count the possitions that i want and use the substring command, but my oldvar has contains different number of characters. The first position of interest maybe nr 1 in some observations and number 15 in others.
Whats the best way to do this?
Lars
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