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Re: st: problem in reading dates in stata
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: problem in reading dates in stata
Date
Sat, 2 Jun 2012 17:21:32 +0100
-help dates- explains about -date()- for various cases. Try
gen edate1 = cond(length(trim(v1)) == 8, date(v1, "DM20Y"), date(v1, "DMY"))
For "STATA" read "Stata".
Nick
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:02 PM, stef salvez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the following date strings
> v1
> 04-10-2009
> 01/11/09
> 29/11/09
> 27/12/09
> 31/01/10
>
> I tried to format the cells in MS excel but couldn't.
> So, STATA has problem reading them with the command
>
> gen edate1 = date(v1, "DMY")
>
> Any code that could fix that problem?
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