transform string into data vector

[emma]

Hi!

I am rather new to IRIS and I would appreciate enormously if you can help me out with a simple (?) thing which I wasnt able to figure out in 2 days now.

How can I transform a datestring as in '2013Q4' into a date vector (2013,4). I guess it should be rather handy, but i could not find any hints anywhere.  Thank you!

Ema

[Jaromir Benes]

Hi Ema

the function you're looking for is str2dat, e.g. str2dat('2010Q4'). It can handle a wide range of date formats, not only the default IRIS format, in which case you need to use the option 'dateFormat='. This function is described in the section on Dates, subsection Converting dates in the reference manual.

Best,

Jaromir

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