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Re: st: How to fill up empty cells?
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Nick Cox <[email protected]> 
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Re: st: How to fill up empty cells? 
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Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:18:06 +0000 
This is an FAQ.
FAQ     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Replacing missing values
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        1/12    How can I replace missing values with previous or
                following nonmissing values or within sequences?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/
                replacing-missing-values/
Nick
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On 21 January 2014 13:12, Peter Bilfiger <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got the following two variables in my dataset:
>
> Number1        Number2
>                000752
>                000752
> 48239P         000752
>                000752
>                000752
>                000752
> 89351Q         893895
>                893895
>                893895
>                893895
>                893895
> ....
>
>
> I want to fill up all the empty cells so that it looks like the following:
>
> Number1        Number2
> 48239P           000752
> 48239P           000752
> 48239P           000752
> 48239P           000752
> 48239P           000752
> 48239P           000752
> 89351Q           893895
> 89351Q           893895
> 89351Q           893895
> 89351Q           893895
> 89351Q           893895
>
> Each Number1 has a corresponding Number2.
>
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