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st: RE: Reformatting all dates in a Stata dataset


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   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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