Hi All, I was working on a data-set which has around 300 variables. I want to rename all the variables with an index - for instance, first variable name as var1,var2,...... var300, I tried this but it doesn't seem to work: data test; input id name $ gender $ public salary; rename id--salary=var1-var5; datalines; 1 a M 1 10000 2 b F 0 20000 3 c M 1 10000 4 d F 0 20000 5 e M 1 10000 6 f F 0 20000 ; It throws an error -> rename id--salary=var1-var5; __ 47 ERROR 47-185: Given form of variable list is not supported by RENAME. Statement is ignored. Is it possible to do it this way or is there an alternate way?
... View more