Alternatively, you can do
replace date = substr(date,1,4) + "/" + substr(date,5,2) + "/" +
substr(date,7,2)
followed by your original -generate- command. Prior to version 10,
Stata wants some form of separator when using the date() function.
(This assumes that your dates have zeros filled in where necessary,
e.g. "19860701"),
HTH,
Eva
2008/9/24 Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>:
> If I remember correctly, version 8 could not deal with run-together dates
> like this
>
> download the -todate- file from ssc (when connected to the internet, type
> -ssc install todate- on the Stata command line)
>
> Rich
>
> Fabian Brenner wrote:
>>
>> Dear all:
>>
>> variable "date" is str8 %9s (one example:19861230). I would like to use
>> gen begin=date(date,"YMD") to get elapsed dates but stata does not put any
>> values in variable "begin" (only missings).
>>
>> Hope someone can help me. I use stata 8.
>> Fabian
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