Please read my reply as well as Tashi's and pay attention to the questions asked. You are not telling us enough about your data. Alternatively, try reading the help for -format- to see what Tashi meant.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Rudy Hover
Thank you for the reply tashi
what do you mean with try format %tdCCYYdd ?
How can I replace the observations as I meant?
On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:14 PM, tashi lama wrote:
> Try format %tdCCYYdd .
From: n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>> The word format means so many things! "29jan1999" is not a format in the sense of -format-. It might the result of setting a particular format?
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>> Is -date- a string variable? Is it a numeric variable with a date format assigned.
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>> Do you want another string variable? Do you want a numeric variable with a specified display -format-?
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>> Nick
>> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
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>> Rudy Hover
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>> I have one variable called 'date' with observations in the format '29jan1999' until '19dec2006', so the last working day of the month, the month and then the year. I want to change this to the format '199901' or '200612', so I don't need the day anymore, only the year and then the month. Could you help me how to replace?
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