title: Drop a range of variables in SAS
body: <p>I currently have a dataset with 200 variables. From those variables, I created 100 new variables. Now I would like to drop the original 200 variables. How can I do that?  </p>
  
  <p>Slightly better would be, how I can drop variables 3-200 in the new dataset. </p>
  
  <p>sorry if I was vague in my question but basically I figured out I need to use --.
  If my first variable is called first and my last variable is called last, I can drop all the variables inbetween with (drop= first--last);</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for all the responses. </p>