Re: st: Extracting Numbers from Strings

[jasonm@ucla.edu]

I think I'm interested in something more general. I'm trying to  
capture the first number after the hyphen (wherever the hyphen may be  
and without any knowledge of what comes after the number following the  
hyphen).

However, for right now this should work (note that a negative sign is  
needed to grab from the back of the string):
gen y=substr(d,-1,1)


>  gen y = substr(x,1,1)
>  destring y, replace
>    should do it.
>         Robert

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