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st: RE: Remove part of a string variable


From   "Philip Ryan" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Remove part of a string variable
Date   Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:13:40 +0930

<<>>

The dofc() function which converts %tc values to %td values might help.  See
-help dates- and click on the hyperlink to -Converting date and time
values-.

* ===========
clear
set obs 1
input str20 mytime
"21aug2005 15:21:22"
gen double cx = clock(mytime, "DMYhms")
list
format cx %tc
list
* the above gives a (formatted) double precision observation on date and
time

gen long dx=dofc(cx)
list
format dx %td
list
* ==========




Phil

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beatrice Crozza
Sent: Sunday, 22 August 2010 1:27 AM
To: statalist
Subject: st: Remove part of a string variable


Dear All,

when I upload my data into Stata from my Access file (using the odbc
function) the time variable that I have becomes:

30dec1899 09:30:14

And it is in a double format.

I want to remove from my variable time the part 30dec1899.

I tried with generate splitat and with split time, p("30dec1899") but they
don't work.

Could you please help me?

Thank you very much.
Bea

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