Date:         Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:47:41 -0500
Reply-To:     smg1get@njcmail.ups.com
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gary Tiedens <smg1get@NJCMAIL.UPS.COM>
Subject:      Pulling data
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Hello all,

  I am trying to read a file and pick off records in 2 fields

700007    00080000  00014946  019    FULL    YES  *NONE*
700128    00080000  00110629  100    FULL    YES  876292
R82820   04000000  02344657  059    FULL    YES  R80700

I need the 1st 6 bytes and the last 6 bytes, but as you can see I have
different characters in the last position, and  they fluctuate between
numeric and character. What I need to do is strip out all of the character
data(*none* for example). And leave only the 1st 6 digits and anything that
starts with a letter followed ny numeric characters. (In the example above
this would be R80700 or R82820)

Gary