On 20 Aib 2006, at 12:27, Mosca, Ilaria wrote:
I have a string variable that looks like the following:
100-2555
500-2341
564-5213
I would like to generate another variable that takes away the dash. In
other words, the new variable would be the following:
1002555
5002341
5645213
I'd be tempted to use -destring- with the option to ignore("-")
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