Re: st: Year to start 1st April

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

At 11:20 PM 3/5/2004 -0500, Richard Williams wrote:
> Whoops.  I think the original solution I posted quickly gets off a day.  I 
> think it is fixable, but how about this instead:
>
> . gen finyear = year(datevisit)
>
> . replace finyear = finyear - 1 if month(datevisit) < 4
Just a quick note to note, as it were, that this approach can be done in 
one line:

   . gen finyear = year(datevisit) - (month(datevisit)<4)

(This works because the logical condition will evaluate to 0 or 1, as 
appropriate.

--Nick Winter


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