Date:         Tue, 8 Nov 2005 08:04:14 -0800
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From:         maarten.laurs@ASTRAZENECA.COM
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Subject:      Re: Rename Variable
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That is correct. In the sas explorer you are, by default, presented
with the label that was assigned to a particular column. You'll have to
assign a different lable to the variable using a proc datasets for
instance.

proc datasets data=yourDataset;
  label yourVariable='newName';
run;

Kind regards, Maarten