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st: RE: converting string to date


From   Joe Canner <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: converting string to date
Date   Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:37:05 +0000

Nilay,

You should be able to convert each individual date in the string:

. date1=date(substr(var,1,10),"YMD")
. date2=date(substr(var,14,10),"YMD")

If you want a single date out of this, you could pick one of the dates in the week (date1, date2, or something in between) and use the -week()- function to convert it to a week.

Regards,
Joe Canner
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Nilay Kumar [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 12:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: converting string to date

I have a dataset where weeks are listed as strings ie. 2004-01-04 - 2004-01-10. How can I convert this entire string to dates?
I tried gen date1= date(var, “20YMD”) but that does not seem to work for this


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