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Re: st: Regarding Dates in String format
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Michael Stewart <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Regarding Dates in String format
Date
Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:36:37 -0500
thanks a lot nick for your help.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you had several such date variables,
>
> tostring <varlist>, format(%td)
>
> or
>
> tostring <varlist>, usedisplayformat
>
> could help.
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Use -string()- function with a format second argument. What is often
>> missed is that the format must be a numeric format (dates are included
>> here).
>>
>> . di string(mdy(6,23,2010), "%td")
>> 23jun2010
>>
>> gen <strdate> = string(<numdate>, "%td")
>>
>> -tostring- is just a wrapper for the above. It is only a better idea
>> if you want to do this with several variables.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Michael Stewart
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a problem with dates.My dates are in regular format(%td) like 23jun2010 .
>>> I want to convert them to a string variable looking exactly like
>>> "23jun2010" but as string variable.
>>> As I try to covert it into a string variable using tostring command,
>>> I get a number in string format (like 7326 ect ) but cant get the
>>> exact format (like 23jun2010).
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Thank you ,
Yours Sincerely,
Mike.
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