On Jan 21, 2008 12:17 PM, Ward Vanlaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear,
>
> I am trying to convert a date (January 1st 2003) into a macro using
> -display- that I could use to compare the result with a variable
> 'edate1' that contains dates (basically to drop cases if 'edate1' is
> smaller than January 1st 2003). The code that I used (see below) does
> not work (Stata executes the first line and displays the converted date
> but stops there). I would appreciate your input.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ward
>
> display d(01jan2003) _request(_startd)
> drop if edate1<`startd'
>
>
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>
Try this:
local startd = d(01jan2003)
drop if edate1<`startd'
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