Changing single data point in time series

[destofante]

I am fetching a recession dummy for the Eurozone from the Haver database:

fetch(d=G10) N025VRM2

My problem is that, for the specific analysis I am conducting, I'd like to treat the first half of 2003 as a recession (Eurozone GDP contracted in Q1, and was virtually flat in Q2). So I'd like to add a simple routine to my program to overwrite the series at 2003Q1 and 2003Q2 setting it equal 1, without doing it manually every time. It must be simple... yet... :-D
Any tip?

Thank you all in advance!

Adolfo

[startz]

There is probably a more elegant way, but how about

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smpl 2003Q1 2003Q2 N025VRM2 = 1 smpl @all

[EViews Matt]

Which I believe you can rewrite as a one-liner:

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N025VRM2.fill(o=2003q1) 1, 1