This is not hard, but first tell us whether the type of original value is
string or numeric.
-- David
At 05:21 PM 8/31/2004 -0400, you wrote:
I have a variable that is a number of about 10 characters, and I need to
create a variable that is the 5th and 6th character of the longer
variable. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could do this?
Thank you very much for your help.
Kenley
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David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
410-516-5404
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