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Re: st: date(s1,s2) leads to no values
As Rich Goldstein suggested, the user-written program -todate- from SSC
is one solution for your problem. However, Rich did not suggest
following with -tostring- and I can't see that to be a good idea. Once
you have an integer date variable, the natural thing to do is to format
it as a date variable. Indeed -todate- has an option to do that.
Nick
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Fabian Brenner
But Richard's solution did work.
-todate statpers_as_string, gen(num_date) p(yyyymmdd)-
-tostring num_date-
Richard Goldstein
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)
Fabian Brenner
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).
I use stata 8.
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