Re: st: how to repeat a value?

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

See also

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/missing.html

Nick



On 14 Jul 2011, at 20:43, Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>  
wrote:

> -replace var_name=var_name[_n-1] if var_name==""-
>
> Rich
>
> On 7/14/11 3:35 PM, Kresten Buch wrote:
> > Dear Stata experts,
> >
> > I have a table generated from a website with two colums as below.
> >
> > id    var_name
> > -------------------------
> > .    Area
> > 185
> > 187
> > 190
> > 201
> > .    Population
> > 185
> > 201
> > 210
> > 217
> > .    Education
> > 165
> > 167
> >
> > And I would like to make it look like this version here below.
> >
> > id    var_name
> > -------------------------
> > .    Area
> > 185    Area
> > 187    Area
> > 190    Area
> > 201    Area
> > .    Population
> > 185    Population
> > 201    Population
> > 210    Population
> > 217    Population
> > .    Education
> > 165    Education
> > 167    Education
> >
> > I hope I explained myself?
> > Been looking for a answer for hours. Hope some of you can help me. Im
> > quite new to stata.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Kresten Buch
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