Re: st: Right to Left Column Cascade or Adjustment

[Scott Merryman <scott.merryman@gmail.com>]

You could use Jeffrey Arnold's -sortrows- (use -findit- to locate download).

input col1 col2 col3 col4 col5
101 101 . . .
. 111 333 . .
. . . . 935
. . . 23 16
405 .295 . .
end
l
sortrows, replace
l

Scott


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:08 AM, David Torres <torresd@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> There's probably a proper name for the process I'd like to carry out.
>
> Say I have five columns of information with staggard cell inputs.  How do I go about moving all the information in a subsequent column back through to the first column for which no information is missing on the row?
>
> I'd like to go from something like this:
>
> Col1   Col2     Col3    Col4    Col5
>
> 101     101
>        111      333
>                                 935
>                        023      016
> 405              295
>
>
> to something like this
>
> Col1   Col2     Col3    Col4    Col5
>
> 101     101
> 111     333
> 935
> 023     016
> 405     295
>
>
> Thanks,
> Diego
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