st: Drop Observations if Greater than A Particular Date

[Lisa Wang <lhwang0925@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I have a simple problem but don't understand why it is currently not
working, so any help would be appreciated. I have imported data
(including dates) into Stata from a csv file and then ran code to
change it into %td format

-generate edate = date(date, "YMD") 		//translate string dates into lapsed dates
format edate %td
drop date
rename edate date
label variable date Date-

I then would like to drop observations where the date is greater than
20-07-2006. I did -drop if date>20072006- but that does not drop any
observations at all when I can see that there are instances where the
date is greater than this.

Do I have to convert my 20-07-2006 back into lapsed dates, then how do
I work out what value this corresponds to? I would have thought it
would be easier than this.

Thank you for your suggestions,
Lisa
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