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st: RE: Reformatting all dates in a Stata dataset
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Reformatting all dates in a Stata dataset
Date
Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:15:34 +0000
Here are three ways to do it.
1.
foreach v of var * {
if "`: format `v''" == "%tc" format `v' %td
}
2.
ds, has(format %tc)
format `r(varlist)' %td
3.
findname, format(%tc)
format `r(varlist)' %td
-findname- is from SJ. See also help for -extended_fcn-.
Nick
[email protected]
James Morden
I am importing lots of datasets from Access into Stata using the odbc command. The automatic format of all my dates after I have imported the dataset is %tc which includes date and time. I would ideally like all my dates to be %td, i.e just date. Does anyone know of a command that would go through my variables one by one and say if format = %tc, reformat as %td.
I have tried to find a way of referring to the format tag attached to each variable but have not managed this so far. I am using Stata 10.
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