Re: sub-string

[Andrew Wittenberg <atw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Arindam Chakraborty wrote:
> 	how to get a sub-string (or sub-word) from a symbol?
> Say I write:
> define symbol tt = `prec,return=tend` ! prec in the variable name
> say ($tt)
>  !-> MESSAGE/CONTINUE 01-SEP-1998 00:00
> 01-SEP-1998 00:00
> 
> Now I want only the first part of the result string, i.e., 01-SEP-1998
> I tried something like this:
> ppl set tt1 $element(1," ",($tt))
> which results in a blank string tt1

Hi Arindam,

You've almost got it... just pass ELEMENT the symbol *name* instead of the
associated string:

   ppl set tt1 $element(1," ",tt)

Cheers,

Andrew

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