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Re: st: importing and converting dates from Excel .csv file
On Aug 27, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Michael McCulloch wrote:
I have dates in an Excel *.csv file as:
date
12/12/08
12/02/08
04/14/08
04/04/08
I wrote the following code to convert to Stata date:
gen str date_year = substr(date, -2,.)
gen str date_month = substr(date, 1, 2)
gen str date_day = substr(date, 4, 2)
destring date_year date_month date_day, replace
list date date_month date_day date_year
However, when I import the *.csv file, the leading zeroes are
dropped from months 1-9. Is there a way to solve this in Stata,
without having to create separate columns for m, d, and y in Excel?
I'm not sure I understand correctly, but if all you want to do is to
translate the variable into a Stata date, none of this is necessary.
For example:
. di %td date("12/2/08","MD19Y")
02dec1908
-- Phil
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