extraction a new string from character

[Mahirat_1]

There is a character "alph32a".. How to extract "alpha" from the character.? Can anyone let me know.?

[PeterClemmensen]

Use Compress Function like this

data _null_;
    string="alph32a";
    newstring=compress(string, '', 'd');
    put string= newstring=;
run;

Result:

string=alph32a newstring=alpha