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Re: st: do-file arguments acting weird
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: do-file arguments acting weird
Date
Wed, 1 Aug 2012 13:46:07 -0500
Elan is clearly right about the main advice here. However, there are
string formats too:
. di %20s "a"
a
. di %10s "a"
a
Nick
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Cohen, Elan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Formats can only be applied to numeric items, which macro 'a' is not. Of course, you could always convert it to numeric, then apply the format:
>
> loc a 16jun2012
> loc anum = date("`a'","DMY")
> di %tdDDMonCCYY `anum'
> di %tdCCYY-DD-NN `anum'
tashi lama
>>
>> 2. If I have a variable date with date in format %tdDDMonCCYY, I have no problem changing to other formats using ( format date %tdCCYYDDMON or format I desire). However, if I have a date in a macro, how can I change the display format. For eg.
>>
>> local a 01jan2011
>> di "`a'"
>> 01jan2011
>> if I want `a' in 2011-01-01, then
>> format `a' %tdCCYY-DD-NN (of course stata isn't happy)
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