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Re: st: foreach question
From
Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: foreach question
Date
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:10:05 -0500
One way would be to use Jeffrey Arnold's -sortrows- (-ssc desc sortrows-):
clear
input str10 d1 str10 d2 str10 d3 str10 d4
23July1997 01Jan1997 12Sept1997 03Feb1997
end
forv i = 1/4 {
gen date`i' = date(d`i', "DMY")
format date`i' %td
}
drop d1-d4
sortrows date1-date4,replace
l
Scott
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:54 PM, David Torres <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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