My date variable is a string, how can I turn it into a date variable Stata can recognize?
“), we are using this as an example of what you could do with regular expressions. The goal of this process is to produce a string variable with the appropriate four digit year for every case, which Stata can then easily convert into a date. To do this we will start by separating out each element of the date (day, month, and two- or four- digit year) into a separate variable, then we will assign the correct four-digit year to cases where there are currently only two digits, finally, we concatenate the variables to create a single string variable that contains month, day, and four-digit years.
