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Yes, well technically I never said egen erases data. I said erases obs meaning the effect of the set obs command. I know code written by you wouldn't do that, ;).
-Dave
> This tip would help avoid the problem it describes. But as I already
> explained: do not blame -egen- for erasing data that was never there.
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