Date:         Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:05:50 -0800
Reply-To:     Gina Nicolosi <ginanicolosi@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gina Nicolosi <ginanicolosi@HOTMAIL.COM>
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Subject:      Re: help on renaming variables in SAS
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

I am unfamiliar with macros, so I always try to find a way around
them. Here's a non-macro method...

data original;
  input oldvar $;
  newvar=substr(oldvar,3);
  cards;
     T1age
     T1sex
     T1cost
  ;
run;

HTH,
Gina Nicolosi
University of Cincinnati