st: Re: Lots of date vars, more FU qx for Eric Wruck

[Clare L Maxwell <maxwellcl1@earthlink.net>]

Hello again, Eric.  And thanks again.

> No, foreach won't work that way.  Here's an example using forvalues 
> that might help:
>
>      +-----------------------------------------------------------+
>      | mo1   day1    yr1   mo2   day2    yr2   mo3   day3    yr3 |
>      |-----------------------------------------------------------|
>   1. |   1      1   1960    12     25   1965     6      7   1968 |
>   2. |  11     12   1907     6     29   1957     3      3   2002 |
>      +-----------------------------------------------------------+
>
> . forvalues i=1/3 {
>   2.   gen date`i' = mdy(mo`i', day`i', yr`i')
>   3. }
Sadly, the variables are not strictly numbered, and it would not be a 
good idea to rename them, especially in the other tasks I do with 
series of coordinated variables.  In your first letter, you mentioned 
that people might find it easier to respond if I gave a better 
description of the problem.  Can you think how this might be put so 
that old hand Stata data manipulators would know what I am talking 
about?  Sorry that this is not exactly a statistical problem.  I need 
to get my data into analyzable shape first, which seems to take so 
much more effort than one would imagine.

Thank you again.

				Yours truly,
				Clare
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