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st: AW: dates


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: AW: dates
Date   Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:17:46 +0200

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clear*

input str8 mydates
01051987 
09151973
12302005 
end

gen mycorrectdate=date(mydates, "MDY")
form mycorrectdate %td

li, noo
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HTH
Martin

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Michael Eisenberg
Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. September 2010 22:10
An: [email protected]
Betreff: st: dates

Colleagues,

I have a filed with dates listed as such

01051987 which is Jan 5, 1987
09151973 which is Sept 15, 1973
12302005 which is Dec 30, 2005

How can I make stata automatically recognize that date format?

Thank you in advance.

Mike
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