st: date function

[Tina Hernandez-Boussard <boussard@stanford.edu>]

Hi All,

Looking for some help converting my string data to a %td.

My date is a str11 as follows:

   | surgery_d~e |
     |-------------|
  1. | 20-Jun-2005 |
  2. | 22-Mar-2005 |
  3. | 29-Nov-2005 |
  4. | 18-Apr-2006 |
  5. | 28-Sep-2004 |

When I try to convert this is a date, gen mydate=date( surgery_date,  
"mdy")

I just get a variable with all values missing.

Any help?

Thanks!


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