format %d varname
On 7/21/08, Diego Bellavia MD <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
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> Here it is my (hopefully simple) problem in STATA 10, Windows environment:
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> I have a variable reporting dates of an intervention (date_baseline)
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> Then I would like to create a second variable simply going
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> 100 days forward date_baseline (let us call it date_followup).
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> I tried with
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> Gen date_followup = date_baseline + 100
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> But unfortunately it creates a new variable reporting date
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> (well I hope at least) not in MDY format but some thing like
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> 1. | 17103 |
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> 2. | 17113 |
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> 3. | 16518 |
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> 4. | 17106 |
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> 5. | 16697 |
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> Etc..
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> The I tried to convert these numbers in dates using
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> tostring date_followup , replace format(%20.0f)
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> replace date_followup= date(followup , "MDY")
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> But it creates only missing values.
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> How can I fix the problem ?
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> Thank you in advance,
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> Diego
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