Thank you guys!
Appreciate it!
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Martin Weiss
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Also note -h in- which explicitly mentions that "Negative numbers may be
> used to specify distance from the end of the data."
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ashim Kapoor
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 1:20 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Trouble with `=`_N'-1'
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I wish to make a change in the 2nd last observation.
>
> so I have : replace line = 5 in `=`_N'-1'
>
> But this change the LAST observation! Am I doing something wrong?
>
> funnily replace line = 5 if _n==_N-1 works fine!
>
> Any tips?
>
> Thank you,
> Ashim.
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