Retrieving parts of a number

[jimjohn]

can someone plz hel[p me with this:

i have a variable in number format to represent the month and year. For example, 200610 corresponds to the 10th month of 2006. i want to create another variable that contains only the month of the year. so i want to look at the date column, and get only the last two digits. any ideas how i can dfo this in spss? thx.

[Maguin, Eugene]

JimJohn,

I think the simplest way to do this is to use the Mod function (look it up
in the universals part of the syntax reference).

Let x be your year-month variable.

Compute y=mod(x,100).

Gene Maguin

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[Oliver, Richard]

compute month=mod(date, 100).

As in:

data list free /date (f6).
begin data
200610
end data.
compute month=mod(date, 100).
list.

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Subject: Retrieving parts of a number

can someone plz hel[p me with this:

i have a variable in number format to represent the month and year. For
example, 200610 corresponds to the 10th month of 2006. i want to create
another variable that contains only the month of the year. so i want to look
at the date column, and get only the last two digits. any ideas how i can
dfo this in spss? thx.
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