Hi Dave,
Try:
findit todate
ssc install todate
On 7/19/05, David Kantor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a set of dates as str8, with values such as "19960718". I want to
> convert these to elapsed date values, but the date function doesn't seem to
> work; date("19960718", "ymd") yields missing.
>
> Is there something I'm not aware of to make this work? -- some alternation
> of the pattern ("ymd")?
> I note that date("1996/07/18", "ymd") works fine, but that's not the form
> my data are in. I also know how to split the strings and work on the
> components. But is there a simple one-step way to do it?
>
> Thanks,
> -- David
>
> David Kantor
> Institute for Policy Studies
> Johns Hopkins University
> [email protected]
> 410-516-5404
>
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