Use the MONTH function - the functions for dates are explained in the help file. You don't have to worry about how to pull the month out of a date as we did in EpiInfo.
define nmon ## define mes __ nmon = month(dc) recode nmon to mes 1="EN" 2="FE" 3="MA" etc
Jamie
Jose wrote:
Dear member in the group
I would like to select records based on the month value from a date variable with the following format "mm/dd/yyyy". I would like to use something like this:
IF DC [1,2]="01" THEN MES="EN" IF DC [1,2]="02" THEN MES="FE" IF DC [1,2]="03" THEN MES="MA"
This is in epiinfo 6. DC is the date variable
I will appreciate your help.
Jose A. Farfan
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