Repeat Strings in Irregular Pattern in a Column in Stata

[smith Jason]

Hello, I have a small dataset like this,
I want to repeat the number in the following ways:
1) if the consecutive numbers are almost the same except for the "-" sign, then we need to use, for example, F-000073 to overwrite the second one" F000073".
2) if there is no similar number, just keep it and thus we don't need to repeat it in the rule above.
3) if the consecutive numbers are the same, we don't need to repeat. (of course, we can repeat it, but the results are the same)
Thank you for your help!


clear
input str60 number
F-000073
F000073
F-000509
F000509
F-000675
F000675
F-000703
F000703
F-000706
F-000709
F000709
F-000713
F000713
F-000744
F000744
F-000746
F000746
F-000748
F000748
F-000750
F000750
F-000762
F000762
F-000781
F000781
F-000782
F000782
F-000783
F000783
F-000784
F000784
F-000788
F000788
F-000803
F000803
F-000806
F000806
F-000811
F000811
F-000813
F000813
F-000817
F000817
F-000831
F000831
F-000832
F000832
F-000833
F000833
F-000834
F000834
F-000835
F000835
F-000837
F000837
F-000838
F-000838
F-000SAL
F-000SAL
F-002005
W36GMUF
W36GMUF
W36GTOP
W36GTOP
D-000180
end

[Ali Atia]

gen sort = ustrregexra(number,"-","")
sort sort number
replace number = ustrregexra(number,"^([A-Z])","$1-") if number[_n-1] == ustrregexra(number,"^([A-Z])","$1-")
drop sort

[smith Jason]

Thank you!