In reply to Rick Wicklin.

Rick,
Thanks, that's a great tip!

Any hints on the single column cut and paste? As an example, I have an Proc Contents HTML output and want to cut out subsets of the variable names for use in a DATA step arrays. The source dsn is an SPSS data set, so I need to rename and regularize different subsets of the variables. At the moment my renaming workflow involves cutting and pasting into emacs or excel to create the statements I wish to use and then cutting and pasting back into SAS. I'd really like something similar to a cntlin data set for metadata.

Thanks
Bill