On Jul 30, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Jeffrey Joh wrote:
I would like to reorder a two-column table by column A, then fill
column B with the values above it. For example: Original:A B2
545 NA8 784 NULL3 269 NULL First sort by column A:A
B2 543 264 NULL5 NA8 789 NULL Then replace
null/na values in column B with the value above it:A
B2 543 264 265 268 789 78 What is the
best way to do this?Jeff
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"two-column table".
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