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>Re: st: programming help
>From Seb Buechte <[email protected]>
>To [email protected]
>Subject Re: st: programming help
>Date Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:12:11 +0100
>
>Philippe, a godd suggestion, but it does not work if you need to
>preserve the order of the values in X and Y. I guess working with
>matrices is the solution here,
True, but that is not too much of a problem:
gen rememberorder = _n
gsort - Y
egen Xnew = clsort(X)
replace Xnew = Y if Y>Xnew
sort rememberorder
A more elaborate option could save the sort order and restore it
afterwards (using local macname : sortedby)
Philippe
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