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Hello,

I am using Eviews 12. My dataset includes several series that contain a number followed by a character (for example "3.46 d"). When importing, Eviews recognizes these series as alpha series.

I could manually adjust the data type for each series when importing the dataset, but the dataset is quite large and I would need to repeat this for every update.

Is there an easy way to force a conversion from alpha to numeric series (ignoring all no numeric characters) ideally while importing?

Many thanks.

Unfortunately not. Best bet is to write an EViews program that loops through all the alpha series (you can use @wlookup to list them) and do the conversion in a loop.