st: RE: Extract Year from String

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Use the -substr()- function. More generally, check out string functions.


Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

jasonm@ucla.edu

I need to extract year from a string variable (str24  %24s).
How can I extract, for example, 1998 from this observation:
Dec/17/1998 11:30:00 PM

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