Requires cap letters: gen mydate=date( surgery_date, "DMY")
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Thomas J. Steichen
[email protected]
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tina Hernandez-Boussard
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 3:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: date function
Sorry, typo, but still get the error:
gen mydate=date( surgery_date, "dmy")
(737 missing values generated)
On Oct 26, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> mdy? dmy! N
>
> Tina Hernandez-Boussard
>
> Looking for some help converting my string data to a %td.
>
> My date is a str11 as follows:
>
> | surgery_d~e |
> |-------------|
> 1. | 20-Jun-2005 |
> 2. | 22-Mar-2005 |
> 3. | 29-Nov-2005 |
> 4. | 18-Apr-2006 |
> 5. | 28-Sep-2004 |
>
> When I try to convert this is a date, gen mydate=date( surgery_date,
> "mdy")
>
> I just get a variable with all values missing.
>
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