replace specific character in the name of a series

[Megalodn]

Hi all,

I am completely new to eviews and figuring out how stuff works here. I have about 50 series named y_b_ar12, y_b_ar13, y_z_ar12....

I want eviews to loop through these series and change the b in the series name to z. Through google and trying I got the following code so far:

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group g y* for !i=1 to g.@count %oldname = g.@seriesname(!i) %newname=@replace(%oldname,"*b*","*z*") rename {%oldname} {%newname} next

The problem is the @replace function, which returns no error but does not replace the b with the z, either.
It is probably a simple solution I am missing here, but I just cannot find it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best,

[EViews Gareth]

Remove the asterisks in the replace function.

[Megalodn]

Hey, thank you for the reply.

I did replace it like this:

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%newname=@replace(%oldname,"b","z")

However, that did not work, unfortunately.

[EViews Gareth]

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%newname=@replace(%oldname,"B","Z")

Series names are uppercase.

[Megalodn]

Bang - that it is.
Thank you so much.