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st: MM/DD/YYYY string to stata date
From
Lars Folkestad <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: MM/DD/YYYY string to stata date
Date
Mon, 4 Jun 2012 21:36:15 +0200
Dear list
I know this is an old timer but i just dont get it.
I have a variable indicating birth date. The variable is in string format and looks like this
Mm/dd/yyyy
If the the month or day is single digit it looks like this
M/d/yyyy
I have removed the /'s by
gen newstrvar = subinstr(strvar, "/", "", .)
But form there i dont get it.
Ive used
Gen newdate = date (newstrvar, "MDY")
But that only gives me missing values.
What am i doing wrong and is there an easy way to do this?
lars
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