Thanks for your response. I thought I was missing something. Thanks
again.
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 3:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: date functions
Higdon, Keith M. (modulo deprecated MIME/HTML)
> Is there a way to use the gen edate function to transform numerous
> date fields into elapsed dates with different variable names?
Other answers have not addressed the issue of multiple variables.
For that, I recommend a -foreach- loop and some systematic name
change such as a prefix:
foreach v of var <varlist> {
gen e`v' = <function call>
}
Nick
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