variable renaming with values

[Reese Crispen]

Hello,

I have a series of variable names PID3, PID4, PID5...PIDn that I want to rename PID1, PID2, PID3...PIDn-2

What's the best way to do this? I know I could by converting the varnames to values, splitting the columns, subtracting 2, and remerging the columns. Is there something a bit more elegant?

Thanks for any help!

Reese

[daniel klein]

rename (PID#) (PID#) , renumber

Best
Daniel

[Reese Crispen]

Perfect, thank you Daniel!