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Re: Re: Re: st: binary indicator for differing subsets of variables [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: Re: Re: st: binary indicator for differing subsets of variables [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Date
Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:26:50 +0100
Quite right. I just realised this as I woke up! Sorry.
You'd need to convert to numeric dates.
Nick
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Fry, Jane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmm... but if my date variables are strings (MMYY)
> would the inrange function take the range to be alphanumeric and
> evaluated from left to right?
>
> e.g. inrange("`v'", date1, date2) for date1="0108" and date2="0708"
> would declare "0707" to be in the range?
>
> This would be a problem, but the blunt solution of generating the
> intervening dates would avoid it.
>
>
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