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    <p>Luciano,</p>
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    <p>I think you need to first subset by word (using subwrd; defined
      by spaces); in this case,</p>
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    <p>var1 = subwrd(line1,3)</p>
    <p>var = substr(var1,28,4)</p>
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    <p>Jim<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/14/16 7:47 AM, Luciano Ritter
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        <div>Hi<br>
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          I am trying to read a data file in .txt and extract the
          information that I need.<br>
          I read the file trough the function 'read', but the problem is
          that i can't extract the information.<br>
          The format of the data is:<br>
          line1 = 83844;01/01/2000;1200;57.6;23.6;22.8;93;0;0;<br>
          line2 = 83844;01/01/2000;1800;;23.6;22.6;91;18;6.6;<br>
          line3 = 83844;02/01/2000;0000;;22;21.3;93;18;4.6;<br>
          line4 = 83844;02/01/2000;1200;51.4;23.2;21.7;87;18;3.3;<br>
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          I need to extract only 23,6 ; 23,6 ; 22 ; 23,2 of the first,
          second, third and fourth lines. I was trying with the
          intrinsic function, for example to the first line:<br>
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          var = substr(line1,28,4)<br>
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          var = 23,6<br>
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          If it was only those 4 lines, i could do manually but they are
          10200 lines. So, I think i need some loop with 'while'
          variating the substr function, but i don't know how to do
          this.<br>
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          Someone can help me?<br>
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          Thanks a lot.<br>
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