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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:29:00 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Calling all REXX programmings

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Rollin White wrote:
>
> Is there a clean way to collect all of the
> numeric data from a string. For example, given:
>
> abc123def456ghi
>
> I want 123456

Dear Rexx Guru,

space( translate('abc123def456ghi','','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'), 0)

For example,

rexxtry say space(
translate('abc123def456ghi','','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'), 0)
123456

Your humble Rexx student,

- Peter Skye

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