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2007 May 14
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Left/right hand side characters
Hello all Is there a way reducing the number of characters in a list so that just the left n numbers of characters is given? For example, If I have a list, listnames, which consists of 4 strings of 6 characters; >listnames [1] "item12" "item34" "item56" "item78" Is there a way to reduce this so only the 5 characters on the lefthand side are given (similar to the LEFT function in Excel) So that I'd get a list like this >listnames [1] "item1" "item3" "item5" "i...