--- "E. Paul Wileyto" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to convert the new date/time format (%tc) to the old standard
> (%td). However, I need to make sure I don't apply the conversion to
> non-%tc formats. (Bad things happen.) Is there a function that
> queries a variable and returns the format (so that I can capture it
> as a macro)?
First, did you know that you can save files in Stata8/9 format using
the -saveold- command?
Second, you can get a list of all variables with a certain format, to
be specified by you, using the -ds- command, see: -help ds-.
Third, you can get the format of a variable in a macro using extended
macro functions (in particular the extended macro function called
-format-), see -help extended_fcn-.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
-----------------------------------------
Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
-----------------------------------------
__________________________________________________________
Sent from Yahoo! Mail.
The World's Favourite Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
