Date:         Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:31:37 -0400
Reply-To:     Michael Tuchman <mftuchman@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Michael Tuchman <mftuchman@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Copy an array

in the first place?
>
>Why not use the same var list to declare two array?

In this application, this data set is handed to me from another
programmer.  I am not creating this data set 'from scratch', or of course,
I would have done it this way.

But my question is more general - I want to be able to say something
like 'create a new array to have have same structure as a given array'.  I
still wonder if there was a good reason SAS did not wish to give us this
functionality.

If I knew my array dimension in advance, I could always hard code it, but
that goes against dynamic, flexible programming.