I was doing a google search to find the answer to my SAS problem, and found this question and answer. I know this posting is more than 1.5 years old, but I just wanted to say tha your answer is exactly what I needed and I thank you. My data is a character string of mixed numbers and letters almost like your first example, and I needed to drop the leading zeros. Oh I also want to thank ren2010 for posting the question in the first place. -Larry-
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