Dropping some, not all, variables with the same prefix

[ama220]

Hello:

I have a set of variables that start with the same prefix. I would like to drop some of them.

E.g., Variables are   AC1  AC2  AC3  AC4 ...... AC100.

I'd like to retain the first 10 ACx variables and delete the rest after that.

Thanks for your help!

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

drop ac11-ac100;

[ama220]

Thanks! I was tried the same code but on a different dataset. No wonder it did not work earlier.