Hi.
Also see -carryforward- on SSC.
ssc desc carryforward
ssc inst carryforward
HTH
--David
----- Original Message ----
From: Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>
To: "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thu, July 14, 2011 6:59:47 PM
Subject: Re: st: how to repeat a value?
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
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