st: RE: RE: RE: RE: reduce a variables numbers of digits to 4 counting from left

["Nick Winter" <nwinter@policystudies.com>]

> Another typo: Nick means 
> 
> substr(string(numvar),1,4)
> 
> as something needs to be a string before you 
> can extract a substring. 

Clearly we all need more coffee this morning.


As for "St8a8", anyone out there young enough (or old enough?) to
remember the techno band Altern8?

--Nick Winter
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