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He all,

I got a question concerning the replacement of string data, when replacing data i usually insert i.e. k3h=@recode(k3h=na,0,k3h), however i need to replace Don't know. When commanding k3h=@recode(k3h="Don't Know",0,k3h) it responses with 'Numeric operator applied to string data'. Pleace help, i appreciate the effort!

Arnoud

Assuming that k3h is an alpha series, this strikes me as a bug. But try

I'm not by my computer so I can't test this but I think the second argument needs to be a string, as in

@ eviewsglen & startz

Thanks a lot for the effort, unfortunately both answers do not solve the issue... any other thoughts?

Post your work file

Glenn's solution works on my machine. If k3h is an alpha series, you can't set it to 0 because that's a number rather than a string.