*(Q) I've been working on this one for a little while to no avail. Does anyone have any advice for weeding out letters in a variable and creating a numeric variable with the remaining numbers? *(A) Posted to SPSSX-L by Raynald Levesque on 2002/08/23. DATA LIST FIXED /str1 1-15(A). BEGIN DATA a76n6jgg4 j 8ujh7hh 12h12h12h a0b1c2 c2b1c0 END DATA. LIST. COMPUTE #nb=0. LOOP cnt=1 TO LENGTH(RTRIM(str1)). COMPUTE #c=RANGE(SUBSTR(str1,cnt,1),'0','9'). IF #c=1 #nb=#nb*10+NUMBER(SUBSTR(str1,cnt,1),F1). END LOOP. COMPUTE nb=#nb. EXE.