Coding String/Character series as Numeric

[Chthoniid]

I've got a data series that is just a list of village names in PNG. I'd like to assign each one a unique numeric code (to make programming For/NEXT loops easier).
So Village A gets value of 1, village B 2, Village C 3 etc.

I'm just not seeing in programming or command reference how to achieve this...

TIA

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[EViews Gareth]

Look at the valmap object

[EViews Glenn]

And to that end, the alpha series that you have will have a Proc/Make mapped series which will create the numeric series and valmap automatically.

[Chthoniid]

Excellent- the proc/map is beautifully simple