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RE: st: List command


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: List command
Date   Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:27:32 +0100

You need to find out more about string functions. Start with the help. 

In this case, 

list whatever if substr(drugname, 1, 3) == "TAG" 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Daniel Sepulveda-Adams
Thank you, now if I need all the subject that start with TAG

Gabi Huiber

try =="TAGAMET"

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Sepulveda-Adams
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I know this is a basic question but I'm having problems to list a
specific
> element in a variable. The elements in the variables are drugs names,
> therefore are string format.
>
> The command that I'm using is:
>
> List [name of the variable] if [name of the variable]==TAGAMET
>
> Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? or if there is other way
to
do

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