At 14:31 19/10/03 -0400, Erica Seiguer wrote:
I have a variable where the identifier is listed as follows
111-11-11-111
I want to remove the dashes so the variable will just be a string of
numbers.
If anybody has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.
Use the -subinstr- function. See help for string functions under -strfun-.
Roger
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