Extracting first two units of string

[Anne Todd]

Hello, I have a string variable that is an ID, and I just want to generate a new var with the first two numbers of that string. So if it was "078394", I would want a new var with just "07". I have been trying with -substr- and -regexs- and seem to just not be getting the syntax correct. Thank you.

[Joro Kolev]

Try

gen newvar = substr(ID,1,2)

[Anne Todd]

That worked! I was making it too complicated on myself. Thank you.