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Re: st: simple question on string variables


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: simple question on string variables
Date   Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:17:42 +0000

At 18:06 04/02/04 +0100, Randy Brenkers wrote:
Hello,
I have a string variable "id".
id
a1
a2
a3
a4
a12
a13
b1
b2
b20
...

How can I create a string variable that contains only the first letter of each observation?
Use the -substr()- function. See -help functions- or -help strfun-.

Roger


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