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Re: st: MM/DD/YYYY string to stata date
From
Lars Folkestad <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: MM/DD/YYYY string to stata date
Date
Tue, 5 Jun 2012 06:58:55 +0200
Thank you both.
Nick: i dont want to make it hard for Stata. How do i go from string mm/dd/yyyy to date?
Mvh
Lars Folkestad
Den 05/06/2012 kl. 00.43 skrev "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>:
> To expand a bit: If you remove the separators, you make it harder for
> Stata. It can deal with dates of the form "ddmmyyyy", "DMY" or
> "ddmmyy", "DMY", "yyyy", but yours don't fit either pattern.
>
> Nick
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Abhimanyu Arora
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I guess it works OK if instead of
>> gen newstrvar = subinstr(strvar, "/", "", .) you type in
>> gen newstrvar = subinstr(strvar, "/", "-", .) and then the date function.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Lars Folkestad <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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?
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