string and date

[loulouviews]

Hi !
I'm struggling to understand how string and date are working in EViews.
For instance, I would like to use @otod to define the first date of sample
I wrote

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smpl @otod(23) %date_end

EViews says that @otod(23) is an illegal date.

Following help, I've tested

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%date=@otod(1) smpl %date %date+1

EViews says that %date is an illegal date


I've also tried :

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%date=@otod(1) smpl {%date} {%date}+1

But Eviews says that %date is not a correct string or date.

How to deal with date and string ? When does EViews consider a string to be a valid date ?

Any help would be grateful, many thanks.

Loulouviews

[EViews Gareth]

Your last syntax is correct, and works:

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create m 1990 2020 %date = @otod(1) smpl {%date} {%date}+1