if-command and Date....

[nina]

Yesterday I failed with what I considered a simple task - can anybody help me with following problem?
I just wanted to give a new variable scores contingent on the date. So I tried this syntax (numbers are jjust

If date = 01.01.2012 newvar=1.
If date = 02.01.2012 newvar=5.

But surprisingly, this doesn't work. Which syntax could I use instead?

Best,
Nina

[ariel barak]

Hi Nina,

Check out the Date Formats section of the Command Syntax Reference.

Try this:

IF date=DATE.MDY(1,1,2012) newvar=1.

IF date=DATE.MDY(2,1,2012) newvar=5.

EXECUTE.

The "MDY" part above tells SPSS the order of the Month, Date, and Year. If your date is in another format, you'll have to change that part.

-Ariel

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On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:10 AM, nina <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yesterday I failed with what I considered a simple task - can anybody help me
with following problem?
I just wanted to give a new variable scores contingent on the date. So I
tried this syntax (numbers are jjust

If date = 01.01.2012 newvar=1.
If date = 02.01.2012 newvar=5.

But surprisingly, this doesn't work. Which syntax could I use instead?

Best,
Nina




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[Robert L]

If your variable date is in a string format rather than actual dates, then I would expect the following to work:

IF date = '01.01.2012' newvar=1

Robert

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Yesterday I failed with what I considered a simple task - can anybody help me with following problem?
I just wanted to give a new variable scores contingent on the date. So I tried this syntax (numbers are jjust

If date = 01.01.2012 newvar=1.
If date = 02.01.2012 newvar=5.

But surprisingly, this doesn't work. Which syntax could I use instead?

Best,
Nina




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[Jon Peck]

Date literals need to use one of the date function such as yrmoda

if date = yrmoda(2012,01,01) ...

Given the variety and ambiguity of date values, more structure than something like 01.01.2012 is needed.  Statistics would take that as a badly formed numerical value.

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Robert Lundqvist <[hidden email]> wrote:

If your variable date is in a string format rather than actual dates, then I would expect the following to work:

IF date = '01.01.2012' newvar=1

Robert

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Yesterday I failed with what I considered a simple task - can anybody help me with following problem?
I just wanted to give a new variable scores contingent on the date. So I tried this syntax (numbers are jjust

If date = 01.01.2012 newvar=1.
If date = 02.01.2012 newvar=5.

But surprisingly, this doesn't work. Which syntax could I use instead?

Best,
Nina




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