RE: st: Re: How To get 4-digit Year Number

["Akihito Tokuhara" <akitoku4@hotmail.com>]

Dear Nick Cox,

By the way, what if the dates are in other forms, such as 11/1937, or 
23101988, etc. ?

I think of something like :

generate qyr = date(dateinc, "mdy" | "my" | "string-here" | etc. )

to read and then do other steps. But I can't make it work, at least with 
format "my" ?

Even when using qyr = monthly(dateinc) if (some specific conditions), I 
can't get the
4-digit year number from format "my".

Thanks again in advance.

Akihito

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> From: "Akihito Tokuhara" <akitoku4@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Re: How To get 4-digit Year Number
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:53:42 -0600
>
> Thank you Nick Cox, for your suggestion. It works fine, if not perfectly.
>
> Your understanding is correct. Probably my writing is not clear, as I try
> to look for few lines of code to solve two cases (one has only year number,
> the other is date as usual).
>
> But your two-step appraoch is much simpler and clear. I appreciate your
> time and experience.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Akihito
>
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