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st: Re: changing observations under one variable
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Rudy Hover <[email protected]>
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st: Re: changing observations under one variable
Date
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:59:21 +0200
Ofcourse '19dec2006' needs to be '29dec2006', i.e. the last working day of the month.
I would appreciate your help
On Apr 24, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Rudy Hover wrote:
> In a dataset I have one variable called 'date' with observations in the format '29jan1999' until '19dec2006', so the last working day of the month, the month and then the year. I want to change this to the format '199901' or '200612', so I don't need the day anymore, only the year and then the month. Could you help me how to replace?
>
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