See "help substr"
gen stuff=substr(var,8,4)
On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:05 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I need to extract year from a string variable (str24 %24s).
How can I extract, for example, 1998 from this observation:
Dec/17/1998 11:30:00 PM
Thank you.
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