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st: RE: identify all variables with dates
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"Philip Ryan" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: identify all variables with dates
Date
Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:53:09 +1030
One way is to use the has(format <pattern>) option on the -ds- command.
There is an example in the help file under "advanced options". You can
subsequently retrieve the variable names from the r(varlist) macro (do a
-return list- after the -ds- command).
Of course this method assumes you have formatted your dates appropriately.
Without formatting, to Stata a "date" is just a number with no special
properties.
Phil
Philip Ryan
University of Adelaide
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of raoul reulen
Sent: Wednesday, 3 March 2010 11:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: identify all variables with dates
Hello
Is there a way to identify all variables in a dataset that contain
dates and then store the relevant variable names in a local? I am
looking for something like the "ds" command.
Thanks
Raoul
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