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clear*
input str9 datestr
31JAN2008
end
g newdate = date( datestr, "DMY")
format newdate %td
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HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nishant Dass" <[email protected]>
To: "STATA Help" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:16 PM
Subject: st: changing format
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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