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st: finding date occurrences within a specified range, searching in multiple variables
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Michael McCulloch <[email protected]> |
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Statalist Statalist <[email protected]> |
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st: finding date occurrences within a specified range, searching in multiple variables |
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Fri, 9 Oct 2009 08:59:31 -0700 |
I'm looking for events that all occurred within a specified date
range, searching in multiple date fields. I've created the following
example to show that I want to find all records where t_date is
between 1nov2009 and 3nov2009.
This works fine, but is there a way to create a loop that would do
this search within multiple date fields, all of which have field name
beginning with "t_"?
clear
set obs 5
gen id = _n
gen date="11012009"
replace date="11022009" in 3
replace date="11032009" in 4
list date
generate t_date = date(date, "MDY")
format t_date %td
gen seek = cond((t_date > td(1nov2009) & t_date < td(3nov2009)), 1, 0)
sort seek
list id t_date seek if seek==1
list id t_date if (t_date > d(1nov2009) & t_date < d(3nov2009))
Michael McCulloch, LAc MPH PhD
Pine Street Foundation
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San Anselmo, CA 94960-2674
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