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Re: st: RE: changing observations under one variable


From   Rudy Hover <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
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 
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> 
> 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?
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