egen fill and blocks of varying size

[Thomas Speidel]

Is there an alternative to egen, fill that can be used with if/in ?

I need to generate a pattern of repeating 1's and 0's with blocks of different size. I can do this by using egen, fill and providing an example of the pattern:

egen is_e1, fill(0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1)

However, I need the sequence to start when a certain condition is met -if qualifier- which egen fill does not support.

[Scott Merryman]

Could you partition the data where the condition is met, apply egen, fill and then append data sets back together

[Thomas Speidel]

Yes, that's what I did. It's far from elegant, but does work