How to remove the second character of a string ?

[Hugo_B]

Hello

I would like to remove the character located a the Second position of a string in the character variable IDCODE.

Do you know how to do that ?

Thank you.

[ScottBass · Accepted solution]

data class;
   set sashelp.class (keep=name);
   newname=cats(substr(name,1,1),substr(name,3));
run;

[andreas_lds]

Maybe something like:

idcode = cats(first(idcode), substr(idcode, 3));