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From	Joshua A Shindell <[email protected]>
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Subject	st: reading dates stored as string variable in .csv file
Date	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:22:28 -0500 (CDT)

Hello all,

I am having trouble reformatting date values of the form 12/31/08.  The variables are stored as a sting variable and the code  gen newdate= date(date, "DMY", 2010) is generating a large number of missing values.  I am using Stata 11.

Thank you,

Joshua A. Shindell


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