AW: st: AW: identify all variables with dates

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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Everything rides on the question: How many other vars are there floating
around that Stata might mistake for dates, and how do they differ from the
ones you want? The heuristic could be as easy as searching for strings of
length 10:


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clear*

inp str10 mydate byte othervar  /* 
*/ str5 otherstring str10 yetanotherdate
"13/12/2007"	01 "hdgs" "13/12/2007"
"14/12/2007"	02 "hdgs" "14/12/2007"
"17/12/2007"	03 "hdgs" "17/12/2007"
"18/12/2007"	04 "hdgs" "18/12/2007"
"19/12/2007"	05 "hdgs" "19/12/2007"
"20/12/2007"	06 "hdgs" "20/12/2007"
"21/12/2007"	07 "hdgs" "21/12/2007"
"27/12/2007"	08 "hdgs" "27/12/2007"
"28/12/2007"	09 "hdgs" "28/12/2007"
"02/01/2008"	10 "hdgs" "02/01/2008"
"03/01/2008"	11 "hdgs" "03/01/2008"
"04/01/2008"	12 "hdgs" "04/01/2008"
"07/01/2008"	13 "hdgs" "07/01/2008"
"08/01/2008"	14 "hdgs" "08/01/2008"
"09/01/2008"	15 "hdgs" "09/01/2008"
end

ds, has(type 10)
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HTH
Martin


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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von raoul reulen
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. März 2010 10:24
An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Betreff: Re: st: AW: identify all variables with dates

Hi Martin

Thanks for your suggestions. The problem is indeed like you describe.
The potential date variables are stored as strings in the following
format: dd/mm/yyyy. How would I identify such variables? Many thanks
for your help, it is much appreciated.

Raoul
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