I’ve got data that comes in ASCII format and I use the insheet command
to read it.
One variable indicates calendar time. That is “21.01.2002” indicates the
21st January 2002.
Unfortunately -insheet- stores the variable as string.
How can I transform this information into %dD_m_Y, so that I can make
easy calculations, like what happens in, say, five days? (gen
newvar=timevar+5)
Thanks for helping me on this.
Hans
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