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Re: st: Extracting Numbers from Strings


From   Robert A Yaffee <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Extracting Numbers from Strings
Date   Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:44:50 -0500

Jason,
  Type help substr .
           Bob

Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Silver School of Social Work
New York University


Biosketch: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ray1/Biosketch2008.pdf

CV:  http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ray1/vita.pdf

----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:27 pm
Subject: st: Extracting Numbers from Strings
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>


> I'm trying to extract the first number after a hyphen.
> For example, from x="1234-1" I want to create y=1.
> Thanks.
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