If these are dates, they are run-together and the Stata official date functions
won't help much. You need either similar tricks to that below or something
like -todate- from SSC (which just uses similar tricks to that below).
Nick
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Philipp Rehm
> This may work:
> gen new=real(substr(string(original),1,4))
>
> (I don't know how hypothetical your numbers are, but if your variable
> "original" reports dates, check out -help date functions- to extract,
> say, the year).
> FUKUGAWA, N. wrote:
> > I would like to make a change in a variable.
> > A new variable keeps only first four figures of ten-digit variable.
> >
> > original -> new
> > 1980000123 -> 1980
> > 1996123456 -> 1996
> >
> > How do I generate such variable using Stata?
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