Greetings Statalist:
First, I hope my attempts at removing the HTML text were successful. If not, apologies in advance.
Second I have several fields that have dates in all sorts of manner, for example (and there are more types, like mar-01-2000, this is just a smattering):
. l2 todate1 in 1/20
+-----------+
| todate1 |
|-----------|
| 30-Jun-99 |
| 10/15/99 |
| 4/15/1998 |
| 4/15/1998 |
| 8/15/1998 |
|-----------|
| 3/15/00 |
| 6/1/1998 |
| 6/1/1998 |
| 1-MAR-00 |
| 1-MAR-00 |
|-----------|
| 1-MAR-00 |
| 1-MAR-00 |
| 02/15/98 |
| 12/01/98 |
| 1-AUG-00 |
|-----------|
| 8/15/1998 |
| 8/15/1998 |
| 6/30/1998 |
| 6/30/1998 |
| 7/1/1999 |
+-----------+
Is there an ado-file or function out there that can help fix this? We have something called chgdate, but it assumes that all the variables are in "xx/xx/xxxx" format and drops everything else. My goal is to have 1 variable that has a date in the Stata date format.
Thank you!
Kate
Kate Rohrbaugh
Research Team Leader
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