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st: RE: foreach question


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: foreach question
Date   Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:06:35 +0200

<>

All a bit unwieldy, b/c your data are in a format that Stata is not
particularly fond of:


***********
clear*

inp str10(Date1 Date2 Date3 Date4)
23July1997 01Jan1997 12Sept1997 03Feb1997
end

gen byte id=1
reshape long Date, i(id) j(number)

gen newdate=date(Date, "DMY")
sort newdate
drop newdate
replace number=_n
reshape wide
drop id
list, noo
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Certainly this is not a task for a loop...

HTH
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Torres
Sent: Sonntag, 22. August 2010 21:55
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: foreach question

Is there a way to sort or reorder dates using the foreach  
command--perhaps using the egen function in the loop or something?

How do I get:

Date1          Date2         Date3         Date4

23July1997    01Jan1997     12Sept1997     03Feb1997

to be ordered thusly:

Date1          Date2         Date3         Date4
01Jan1997     03Feb1997     23July1997     12Sept1997

Thanks,

--
David Diego Torres

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