Grocer Function

NAME

date2num_fq - transforms a date into a number and its frequency

CALLING SEQUENCE

[num,fq]=date2num_fq(dat)

PARAMETERS

Input

Output

DESCRIPTION

Transforms a date into its numerical representation and its frequency.

EXAMPLE

1) [num,fq]=date2num_fq('1985q4')
2) [num,fq]= date2num_fq ('2002a')
3) [num,fq]= date2num_fq ('97m12')
4) [num,fq]= date2num_fq ('1985f52q4')

These examples return the frequencies of annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly dates.

AUTHOR

Eric Dubois 2002