Thanks, Martin.
Instead of monthly, I had put date; and that gave me huge numbers
Eric
Eric de Souza
College of Europe
Dyver 11
BE-8000 Brugge (Bruges)
Belgium
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clear*
input str10 stringdate
1999Jan
1999Feb
end
gen double date=monthly(stringdate , "YM") format date %tmMonth_CCYY l
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HTH
Martin
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Betreff: st: Converting date strings into dates
I have never quite mastered the technique of converting date strings into dates.
In this case, I have a string variable of the form: 1999Jan 1999Feb and so on, and wish to convert it into a date Thanks for any help.
Eric
Eric de Souza
College of Europe
Dyver 11
BE-8000 Brugge (Bruges)
Belgium
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