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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: convert date in string data type to integer data type |
| Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:55:53 +0000 |
The help for dates does explain how to do this. gen mydate = date(mystr, "MDY") format mydate %whatever Note that you don't override the original. Nick On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Whitney Cox <wcox@parchment.com> wrote: > I have a Stata .dta file that contains a date in a str10 data type field > with the format of %10s that displays a date as 01/31/2012 > I want to convert it to an integer data type with the format > %tdNN/DD/CCYY, which displays as 01/31/2012 > > What should my command be to do that? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/