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RE: st: isolating characters in the middle of a long number


From   "Nichols, Austin" <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: isolating characters in the middle of a long number
Date   Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:07:54 -0400

The proposed solution works well if every observation is exactly ten
``characters" (digits) long, or if you want the 5th and 6th digit from the
*end* of the number, but if you have a variable whose length varies and you
really want the 5th and 6th digit, you will go wrong:
        oldvar   newvar  
       1234567       23  
    1234567890       56  
So, assuming you really want the 5th and 6th digit, try:
. gen byte newvar = real(substr(string(oldvar,"%10.0f"),5,2))
        oldvar   newvar
       1234567       56  
    1234567890       56  

-----Original Message-----
From: David Kantor [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: isolating characters in the middle of a long number

Try this (untested):
. gen byte newvar = mod(int(oldvar/10000), 100)
I hope this helps.
--David

> > >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?
> > >
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