Try
gen str State = substr(oldvar,4,2)
This assumes that your original variable was string.
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Sent: Monday, 14 May 2007 14:06
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Subject: st: generating new vars from old by cutting off a portion off
the old
Hi,
I have a variable that has about 8 characters per observation and I need
to take 2 characters (4th and 5th characters) and generate them as new
variables representing state codes. So for example, the variable has as
one of its value CITNA134. The characters I need to extract are NA,
which
will be recoded as State code. How would I go about doing this?
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