Grocer Function

NAME

date2num - transforms a date into a number

CALLING SEQUENCE

num=date2num(dat)

PARAMETERS

Input

Output

DESCRIPTION

Transforms a date into its numerical representation

EXAMPLE

1) d=date2num('1985q4')
2) d=date2num ('2002a')
3) d=date2num ('97m12')
4) d=date2num ('1985f52q4')

These examples return the numerical representation of an annual, a quarterly, a monthly and a weekly date.

AUTHOR

Eric Dubois 2002