Hi,
I am using Stata 10.0 for Windows and I have a small question about the "format" of variables:
I have several date variables that appear as string variables in my Stata dataset (reported as "31JAN2008", for instance):
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
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maturitydate str9 %9s MaturityDate
offerdate str9 %9s OfferDate
I need to find the duration between these two dates so I am trying to change them to a date format as follows:
. format maturitydate offerdate %td
But I get the following error:
"string %fmt required for string variables"
Could someone tell how can I change string variables to dates?
Thank you!
Nishant
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