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st: RE: replace blank string values
From
"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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<[email protected]>
Subject
st: RE: replace blank string values
Date
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:26:27 +0200
<>
-sort-ing allocates the name to the end, so you can pick it up there...
***********
clear*
set obs 5
gen byte id=_n
expand 3
inp str10 name
""
Nick
""
Kit
""
""
""
Ben
""
Maarten
""
""
""
""
Martin
l, sepby(id)
bys id (name): replace name=name[_N]
l, sepby(id)
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HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of richard boylan
Sent: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2010 20:18
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: replace blank string values
I have a dataset which is a panel: id, year where id is the numeric
value the individual.
I also have the name of the individual, however, for some
observations, the name is missing.
How do I go about replacing the missing values for name?
One way that works is
sort id year
by id: replace name = name[_n + 1] if name == "" & name[_n + 1] ~= ""
by id: replace name = name[_n + 1] if name == "" & name[_n + 1] ~= ""
...
by id: replace name = name[_n + 1] if name == "" & name[_n + 1] ~= ""
However, is there a more efficient way of doing this, say using egen?
Richard
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