Thanks Jamie and Svend, it worked.
rob
On 9/4/05, Svend Juul <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert wants the extract a character from a string:
> ---
> "More specifically, suppose i have a string "hey". I want the local
> macro `first' to contain the string "h"."
> ---
> It can be done like this:
>
> . local first = substr("hey",1,1)
> . display "`first'"
> h
>
> Hope this helps.
> Svend
>
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