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st: Fwd: Creating date variables using loops


From   Lars Folkestad <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Fwd: Creating date variables using loops
Date   Thu, 4 Oct 2012 12:18:33 +0200

> Morning List
> 
> I have a dataset containing id startdate stopdate but want to create 1 variable for every day inbetween. The duration is not The same pr id.
> 
> I thought that since i increase by one unit (=1day) each time it would be easily done using a loop. I have not used loops before and need coding help:
> 
> foreach var in id startdate stopdate {
> gen `day'= but what to write here seening i want The number of variables from start till stop. 
> 
> Mvh
> Lars Folkestad
> 

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