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st: formatting dates using "todate"
From
Alexey Lyubimov <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: formatting dates using "todate"
Date
Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:03:22 +0000
Hi,
I have dates in one file formatted as 01nov2013, and in the second file they are formatted as 20131101. I need to merge the files, so I am trying to convert the dates into the same format. There is a posting in the archives as of Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:36:11 -0500 which suggests the following code to convert YYYYMMDD to stata date format:
todate old_date, gen(new_date) pattern(yyyymmdd) format(%d)
I installed "todate" and tried to run this code, but I get the following error message: "length does not match pattern".
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix that?
Thank you
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