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st: Extracting Numbers from Strings


From   jasonm@ucla.edu
To   "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Subject   st: Extracting Numbers from Strings
Date   Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:24:20 -0800

I'm trying to extract the first number after a hyphen.
For example, from x="1234-1" I want to create y=1.
Thanks.

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