Thanks a lot Cameron,
Patricia
--- "Munro, Cameron" <[email protected]> escribi�:
> See -help strfun- and specifically -substr-. In your case
> you'd use substr(varname,1,2) assuming the digits are
> always the first two characters.
>
> Cameron.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Patricia Vera
> Rojas
> Sent: 10 November 2005 15:24
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: cut variables
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a string variable with different size:
>
> 01 XXX YYY ZZZ
> 02 XXXX YYY ZZZZZZ
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> 30 X Z YYYYY
>
> I want to get only the first two digits (01 to 30)
> How can I do it?
>
> Thanks,
> Patricia
>
>
>
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