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st: RE: foreach question
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: foreach question
Date
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:06:35 +0200
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All a bit unwieldy, b/c your data are in a format that Stata is not
particularly fond of:
***********
clear*
inp str10(Date1 Date2 Date3 Date4)
23July1997 01Jan1997 12Sept1997 03Feb1997
end
gen byte id=1
reshape long Date, i(id) j(number)
gen newdate=date(Date, "DMY")
sort newdate
drop newdate
replace number=_n
reshape wide
drop id
list, noo
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Certainly this is not a task for a loop...
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Torres
Sent: Sonntag, 22. August 2010 21:55
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: foreach question
Is there a way to sort or reorder dates using the foreach
command--perhaps using the egen function in the loop or something?
How do I get:
Date1 Date2 Date3 Date4
23July1997 01Jan1997 12Sept1997 03Feb1997
to be ordered thusly:
Date1 Date2 Date3 Date4
01Jan1997 03Feb1997 23July1997 12Sept1997
Thanks,
--
David Diego Torres
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