replace numeric char within a column

Hey,
I would like to replace numbers (-999) as char with a 0 for all -999 in a specific column.
Thanks already!

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Hi,
it sounds as if you have a cell array of strings. In this case
allDatabySubj(strcmp(allDatabySubj, '-999)) = {0};
should do the trick.
Titus

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julro's "Answer" moved here since it's not an ANswer/solution to the original question:
Thanks a lot! That was the trick:).

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x(x(:,colID)==-999,colID)=0;
for your specific column in colID

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That's kind of what I was thinking but I could never figure out what the "numeric char" or "as char" part meant. I didn't know if the array was numeric, character (but with numbers as the characters), or possibly even a cell array.
It doesn't make any sense and I don't know what was intended by it either but I am guessing it is just poor grammar from non-English native tongue poster...
julro's "Answer" moved here since it's not an ANswer/solution to the original question:
Thanks! Char means character, sorry. I am getting the following error message:
>> allDatabySubj(allDatabySubj(:,6)==-999,6)=0; ??? Undefined function or method 'eq' for input arguments of type 'cell'.

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