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RebeccaJW
Calcite | Level 5

Hello,

 

I am asked to subtract the numeric portion of a character variable using input(), substrn() or scan(). 

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

 

This is what the original character look like.This is what the original character look like.This is the expected result.This is the expected result.

 

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Reeza
Super User

How do those align? How does 10.5[1] become 15.7 or is that just a generic example?

 

If you're just trying to remove the [1] section, use SCAN and INPUT.

 

num_var = input(scan(char_var, 1, "[]"), best32.);

@RebeccaJW wrote:

Hello,

 

I am asked to subtract the numeric portion of a character variable using input(), substrn() or scan(). 

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

 

This is what the original character look like.This is what the original character look like.This is the expected result.This is the expected result.

 


 

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

Subtract them from what?

Show your actual data, not photographs of your data.

Show what you have tried. 

Reeza
Super User

How do those align? How does 10.5[1] become 15.7 or is that just a generic example?

 

If you're just trying to remove the [1] section, use SCAN and INPUT.

 

num_var = input(scan(char_var, 1, "[]"), best32.);

@RebeccaJW wrote:

Hello,

 

I am asked to subtract the numeric portion of a character variable using input(), substrn() or scan(). 

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

 

This is what the original character look like.This is what the original character look like.This is the expected result.This is the expected result.

 


 

RebeccaJW
Calcite | Level 5
Thank you so much! It works!

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