Hello,
I'm working with a dataset and I want to destring a variable. This variable is a string but with blank spaces. For context, when i type in codebook I get the following result.

Type: String (str15)

Unique values: 3,972 Missing "": 0/5,949

Examples: "78176 6"
"159120 2"
"239 4 2"
"321139 2"
I tried to destring it but it doesn't work and I get the message 'contains nonnumeric characters; no replace'. I'm not too sure how to proceed with this. Would really appreciate some help!