st: Re: RE: RE: filling in missing string

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

RTFM...or in this case, check the online help before asking a basic syntax 
question like this

-help bysort-  will tell you what the () does

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terra Curtis" <terra.curtis@cambridgefinance.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:45 PM
Subject: st: RE: RE: filling in missing string



> Nick,
>
> There are multiple products per molecule...
>
> What does putting "molecule" in parentheses do in this line:
> bysort product (molecule) : replace...
>
> Thanks again.
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