Date:         Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:18:06 -0800
Reply-To:     karma <dorjetarap@GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
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From:         karma <dorjetarap@GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: modifying a variable
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On 12 Nov, 15:47, sasuser.joe...@GMAIL.COM (joey m) wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> How can I go from something like this:
>
> 5501A
> 5402A
> 5803A
>
> to something like this?:
>
>  5501
> 5402
> 5803
>
> As always, thanks a lot for your help.
>
> J

You can compress out the alpha characters with compress's third option

data one;
   input val$;
   val2=compress(val,,'kd');
   cards;
5501A
5402A
5803A
;
proc print;run;