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RE: st: date


From   Enzo Coviello <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   RE: st: date
Date   Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:29:11 +0200

At 17.11 17/09/03 +0100, you wrote:
Enzo Coviello

>> how do i get the date (year only) from a string variable that look
>> like  dd/mm/yyyy.

> gen str4 year = substr(datevar,7, .)

Note that this would fail if a date happened to be e.g. 1/01/2001
or even 1/1/2001. In short, it depends on all dates being
exactly of the form specified. If you went this route
it's safer to work from the end and work with

substr(date,-4,4)

and safer yet to work with -split-, as Roger Newson
suggested. Note in that case the -destring- option.

Thanks prof Cox for your deeper comments.

Enzo


Nick
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