st: recoding variables by abbreviating answer categories

["Heleen Sinte Maartensdijk" <heleen80@hotmail.com>]

Is there a possibility to abbreviate the answer categories of a variable.
For example: A variable has answercategories existing of 5 numbers. These 
are codes, and only the first number of the answercategorie is important. So 
you want to change the values of the particular variable from the 5 numbers 
to only the first number. Say 58722  53879 have to become 5, and 38905 39648 
have to become 3, etcetera. How can you reach this result?



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