topic Re: How to print the result on a new page? in New SAS User

How to print the result on a new page?

cosmid — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:59:29 GMT

When you run macros multiple times, how do you make it so that each successful run will print on a new page instead of concatenating the next result to the previous one without a line break?

Example:

macro(a);

macro(b);

The result will be something like:

Page 1:

Successful run a

blah blah blah blah

Successful run b

more blah blah blah

*bunch of blank lines here*

Page 2:

How to make it so that the result from b will start on page 2 or if it is not possible is there a way to add blank lines in between the results? The example has two macros but needs this for a lot more macros.

Thanks!

Re: How to print the result on a new page?

ballardw — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 22:31:08 GMT

Are you generating a document or printing directly to a printer?

If a document then what type? Options used?.

Macro or not the approaches are generally the same. But where/how you are "printing" is need to know. And the syntax varies a bit depending on the actual destination.

Re: How to print the result on a new page?

cosmid — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:16:50 GMT

Sorry, when I said print, I meant by printing to the output window. When I run the code in SAS studio, with HTML there's a line break for each result, and with listing as the output window, each macro run returns at a new page. But when I do this in UNIX, each macro result just print right below the previous one, there isn't even a line break. So I was wondering if there's an option that I can add to separate each results either with a line break or make sure the new result starts off on a new page.

Re: How to print the result on a new page?

cosmid — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:29:03 GMT

I am using a temporary solution, something like as follows:

%print_something(a);
%print_line_break();
%print_something(b);
%print_line_break();
%print_something(c);
%print_line_break();

Where the print_line_break() is just a proc print statement I put inside to print out a constant text like ---------- to separate out the result. It works, but not pretty. I was hoping there's a way to separate them to different pages or a more standard way, like with an option, that adds a line break.

Re: How to print the result on a new page?

ballardw — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:46:33 GMT

@cosmid wrote:
Sorry, when I said print, I meant by printing to the output window. When I run the code in SAS studio, with HTML there's a line break for each result, and with listing as the output window, each macro run returns at a new page. But when I do this in UNIX, each macro result just print right below the previous one, there isn't even a line break. So I was wondering if there's an option that I can add to separate each results either with a line break or make sure the new result starts off on a new page.

HTML doesn't really have a concept for "page" so sending such to HTML is pretty problematic.

If you mean the traditional OUTPUT window enabled with ODS LISTING then again, how the output is generated does come into play.

I am afraid a list of macro names without any details of the actual macro code involved isn't very helpful.

One caution: if you are setting options in SAS studio and then running on a different system then UNIX may use them differently.

Re: How to print the result on a new page?

cosmid — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 18:11:53 GMT

Sorry, I didn't provide any code. I was referring to results in general. I'm looking for proc prints used in a macro to be more specific. Here's a sample code, and I wanted each macro to print on a new page.

data sample;
input x;
datalines;
1
2
3
run;

%macro print_it();
proc print data=sample;
run;
$mend;

%print_it(); /*first run*/
%print_it(); /*2nd run, but I wanted this to be on page 2*/
%print_it(); /*3rd run, and this should be on page 3*/

It's a small data, but if the result generated takes more than one page, then the next macro result should be on the next page of the previous macro's result.