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Re: st: RE: converting string to date
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Nilay Kumar <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: converting string to date
Date
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:26:09 -0500
Hi Joe,
Thanks a lot for your response. Works perfectly.
I’m new to using Stata and had been getting frustrated over this. This was very helpful.
Nilay
On Nov 29, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Joe Canner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nilay,
>
> You should be able to convert each individual date in the string:
>
> . date1=date(substr(var,1,10),"YMD")
> . date2=date(substr(var,14,10),"YMD")
>
> If you want a single date out of this, you could pick one of the dates in the week (date1, date2, or something in between) and use the -week()- function to convert it to a week.
>
> Regards,
> Joe Canner
> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Nilay Kumar [[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 12:15 PM
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> Subject: st: converting string to date
>
> I have a dataset where weeks are listed as strings ie. 2004-01-04 - 2004-01-10. How can I convert this entire string to dates?
> I tried gen date1= date(var, “20YMD”) but that does not seem to work for this
>
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