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st: RE: Remove part of a string variable
From
"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To
<[email protected]>
Subject
st: RE: Remove part of a string variable
Date
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:51:04 +0200
<>
You say your variable is a "double" data type? If so, it is numeric, and
-split- only works for strings.
What you showed in your post as
30dec1899 09:30:14
is really
di %20.0fc clock("30dec1899 09:30:14", "DM18Yhms")
=
-1,893,508,186,000
So what you really want is to extract a component, not split a string, as in
-help dates_and_times, mark(extracting)-.
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beatrice Crozza
Sent: Samstag, 21. August 2010 17:57
To: statalist
Subject: st: Remove part of a string variable
Dear All,
when I upload my data into Stata from my Access file (using the odbc
function) the time variable that I have becomes:
30dec1899 09:30:14
And it is in a double format.
I want to remove from my variable time the part 30dec1899.
I tried with generate splitat and with split time, p("30dec1899") but
they don't work.
Could you please help me?
Thank you very much.
Bea
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