This will do it:
di ceil(strpos("jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec", "oct")/4)
Sergiy Radyakin
On 2/6/08, Visintainer, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a date function that converts a string variable containing only the text of the month into a numeric version of the month? e.g.: X has string values October, April, December, etc. I want to create a new variable that is numeric with numbers 10, 04, 12, etc. I thought -monthly( )- would do it, but I can't seem to get the right syntax.
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> Thanks.
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> -p
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