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| From | Rudy Hover <rudy.hover@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: RE: changing observations under one variable |
| Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:16:18 +0200 |
The variable 'date' has type -long-. The format is -%d- The label is -Date of Observation- On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Nick Cox wrote: > The word format means so many things! "29jan1999" is not a format in the sense of -format-. It might the result of setting a particular format? > > Is -date- a string variable? Is it a numeric variable with a date format assigned. > > Do you want another string variable? Do you want a numeric variable with a specified display -format-? > > Nick > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk > > Rudy Hover > > I have one variable called 'date' with observations in the format '29jan1999' until '19dec2006', so the last working day of the month, the month and then the year. I want to change this to the format '199901' or '200612', so I don't need the day anymore, only the year and then the month. Could you help me how to replace? > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/