Hello friends,
I recently moved a do-file from Stata 9 to 10, and the following short
date program, instead of creating Stata dates, now creates missing
values. It's supposed to take dates in MM/DD/YY format imported from
an Excel .csv file, and translating them to Stata date format.
I'd appreciate any pointers/critiques on my method, or what I missed
in the 9 to 10 upgrade...
*prep date vars, from mm/dd/yy
foreach D of varlist d_sample1 ///
d_sample2 ///
{
generate `D'1 = date(`D', "mdy", 2010)
format `D'1 %d
drop `D'
rename `D'1 `D'
}
Michael McCulloch, LAc MPH PhD
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