g abbrcode = int(code/10000)
On Mon May 5 2003 12:15, Heleen Sinte Maartensdijk wrote:
> 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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