Re: st: formatting question

[Rebecca Pope <rebecca.a.pope@gmail.com>]

Assuming your variable is "age":

*** begin example ***
clonevar strage = age         /* make copy of string age for checking */
replace age = trim(subinstr(strage,"/","",.))
*** end ***

Rebecca



On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:21 AM,  <cdenking@bidmc.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 72/  /
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