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jenim514
Pyrite | Level 9

Hi!  

 

I have values that look like this:

 

VAR_NAME

(3) left hearing 12JAN2017

(14) right hearing 30JAN2017

 

The only thing i need to capture from this value are the numbers within the parentheses.  Can someone help me use a scan or substr to capture this (or other function) ?

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

if the pattern is exactly the same as your sample-

new_var=compress(scan(var_name, 1), '()');

 

Reeza
Super User

new_var=scan(var_name, 1, '()');

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