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st: Re: filling in gaps


From   "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: filling in gaps
Date   Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:05:28 -0400

replace ID=ID[_n-1] if ID==.

Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Berry" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:55 PM
Subject: st: filling in gaps



I'd like to know if anyone can suggest a solution to the following problem. I have a data set with multiple observations on federal programs. However, the program ID is only given for the first observation of a program, and then is blank. The file looks like this:

ID VAR1
10.001 1973
1813
1654
10.002 5623
4158
10.003 6639 ....
I would like to fill in the gaps in the program IDs. In this case, rows 2 and 3 should be set 10.001, and row 5 should be set to 10.002. I should note that I have about 12000 rows of data. Program IDs are not necessarily sequential. There is not always a gap between program IDs; that is, a program may have only one row of data. Can anyone suggest a solution to this problem? I haven't found anything by searching the archives, although I confess that I'm not sure what the right search terms might be. Thanks.
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