You cannot make an entry "-77" in a date field. You need another variable before the date field to decide (with, let's say value 0 if no need to enter, and value 1 if you want to enter) whether you want to enter a date or skip it:
enterdate AFTER ENTRY IF enterdate=0 THEN GOTO varx ENDIF END
legdat RANGE 01/01/1900 31/12/2008 LEGAL 30/12/2009 24/11/2008 END END
varx ...... END
Hans
epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Thank you for your response to my date question.
During entry, if the date field is not applicable to a certain record (whereas I do not need to enter a date for that specific record, rather skip it) what do I designate as my skip code. I did have -77, but when I would enter that, it would say it was an illegal entry.
How do I write the code, so that a skip is -77, and it still be a legal entry in some instances?
legdat RANGE 01/01/1900 31/12/2008 LEGAL 30/12/2009 24/11/2008 END END
(somewhere in there, I need to put it a skip code)
Thank you for your time,
Lindsay