Re: st: isolating characters in the middle of a long number

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

This is not hard, but first tell us whether the type of original value is 
string or numeric.
-- David

At 05:21 PM 8/31/2004 -0400, you wrote:

> I have a variable that is a number of about 10 characters, and I need to 
> create a variable that is the 5th and 6th character of the longer 
> variable. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could do this?
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Kenley
> [...]
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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