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st: separating string of fixed length into sections
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Michael McCulloch <[email protected]> |
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st: separating string of fixed length into sections |
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Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:12:49 -0800 |
Hello,
I have a date string which I'd like to convert to Stata date.
. list datedx in 1/5
+----------+
| datedx |
|----------|
1. | 19900417 |
2. | 19880107 |
3. | 19930407 |
4. | 19880819 |
5. | 19880927 |
+----------+
Before I can use mdy() and date(), I need to split the string into sections:
the first four characters for year,
then the next two for month,
then the last two for day.
How is that done? I've looked at -split- which seems to require a fixed
character on which to set parsing, and -parse-, which is outdated.
Best wishes,
Michael
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