Re: st: dates

[P chrisman <peggyc@u.washington.edu>]

Dear List

I tried this and keeping getting the message that no changes were made 
when there are definitely changes that should have been made.


. replace exitdate=mdy(12,31,2005) if year(exitdate)==2006
(0 real changes made)

I do not know what it means but when browsing data the "exitdate" is in 
blue with dashes and "entrydate" is in black with spaces. The formats are:

describe exitdate entrydate

             storage  display     value
variable name   type   format      label      variable label
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
exitdate        long   %dD_m_Y     exitdate  
entrydate       long   %dD_m_Y               
I am confused why this command in not capturing the dates I need to change.
Thanks,
Peggy

Sebastian F. B�chte wrote:

> Peggy
>
> you could try
>
> replace exitdate = mdy(12,31,2005) if year(exitdate)==2006
>
> Regards
> Sebasrian
>
>   
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