Thank you so much Oliver,
It works fine for me .Just I have a original problem which I don't know how
to fix.My main problem is that I have several dates ,let's say , T1, T2,
T3....... to T24.I want to find the max T (date) .Up to now it is ok because
I get the max of all dates but each date has number and other
characteristics which I need to have them as well.But I don't know how I can
get this variables after findinf max T.
In fact I don't know after findind MAX how I can search it through my file
to catch the number of this T and other information.
Do you have any idea in this case?
I appreciated your help
Thanks again
Behnaz
>From: "Oliver, Richard" <
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>Reply-To: "Oliver, Richard" <
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>To:
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>Subject: Re: [BULK] frist ? character of value
>Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:30:38 -0600
>
>In this case, it would appear that you want everything prior to "|", so:
>
>*create some sample data.
>data list list (",") /oldstring (a15).
>begin data
>1|01/02/2005
>1|02/03/2005
>14|04/08/2006
>end data.
>*now the code to create the new variable.
>string newstring (a3).
>compute newstring=substr(oldstring, 1, index(oldstring, "|")-1).
>execute. /*to see the result immediately.
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>behnaz shirazi
>Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:03 PM
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>Subject: [BULK] frist ? character of value
>Importance: Low
>
>Hello Dear All,
>
>I wonder if you know how I can get the 2 or 3 first character of a
>value.for
>example I have XX variable with following value:
>
>1|01/02/2005
>1|02/03/2005
>14|04/08/2006
>..
>..
>I want to create a new variable from this variable which contains just
>frist
>2 or 3 character of this values:
>1
>1
>14
>
>
>Do you have any idea?
>
>Thanks in advance
>Behnaz Shirazi
>
>
>
>
>
>..
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