Language Reference

RENAME Call

renames a SAS data set

CALL RENAME( <libname,> member-name, new-name);

The inputs to the RENAME subroutine are as follows:

libname

is a character matrix or quoted literal containing the name of the SAS data library.

member-name

is a character matrix or quoted literal containing the current name of the data set.

new-name

is a character matrix or quoted literal containing the new data set name.

The RENAME subroutine renames a SAS data set in the specified library. All of the arguments can directly be specified in quotes, although quotes are not required. If a one-level data set name is specified, the libname specified by the RESET deflib statement is used. Examples of valid statements follow:

  
    call rename('a','b'); 
    call rename(a,b); 
    call rename(work,a,b);