Thank you for your help,
I tried to use Eva's solution. The first step (replace date = substr(date,1,4) + "/" + substr(date,5,2) + "/" + substr(date,7,2)) does exactly what it should do but begin=date(date,"YMD") only produces missings again. (My dates have zeros filled in where necessary). I don't know why this happens.
But Richard's solution did work.
-todate statpers_as_string, gen(num_date) p(yyyymmdd)-
-tostring num_date-
Regards,
Fabian
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> Datum: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:43:29 +0100
> Von: "Eva Poen" <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: date(s1,s2) leads to no values
> Alternatively, you can do
>
> replace date = substr(date,1,4) + "/" + substr(date,5,2) + "/" +
> substr(date,7,2)
>
> followed by your original -generate- command. Prior to version 10,
> Stata wants some form of separator when using the date() function.
>
> (This assumes that your dates have zeros filled in where necessary,
> e.g. "19860701"),
>
> HTH,
> Eva
>
>
> 2008/9/24 Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>:
> > If I remember correctly, version 8 could not deal with run-together
> dates
> > like this
> >
> > download the -todate- file from ssc (when connected to the internet,
> type
> > -ssc install todate- on the Stata command line)
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > Fabian Brenner wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all:
> >>
> >> variable "date" is str8 %9s (one example:19861230). I would like to
> use
> >> gen begin=date(date,"YMD") to get elapsed dates but stata does not put
> any
> >> values in variable "begin" (only missings).
> >>
> >> Hope someone can help me. I use stata 8.
> >> Fabian
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