topic Re: save sas log externally and see it in log window in SAS Programming

save sas log externally and see it in log window

Srigyan — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:00:29 GMT

I am using following code to save log

proc printto log="C:/log_test.lst";
run;


data dsn;
input patid implants;
datalines;
1 3
1 1
1 2

;run;

proc printto log=log;run;

Though I get a log in c drive but log now get desappeared from log window. Is there any way I can see the log in log window also and get one extracted as well.

Re: save sas log externally and see it in log window

PeterClemmensen — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:03:57 GMT

I think you can do this using the ALTLOG System Option. You have to alter the configuration file to do so though.

Re: save sas log externally and see it in log window

yabwon — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:33:03 GMT

Hi,

You could also do it just by "re-reading" created log:

proc printto log="C:/SAS_WORK/log_test.log";
run;


data dsn;
input patid implants;
datalines;
1 3
1 1
1 2
;
run;

proc printto log=log; run;

data _null_;
  infile "C:/SAS_WORK/log_test.log";
  input;
  putlog "*>" _infile_;
run;

All the best

Bart

Re: save sas log externally and see it in log window

ChrisNZ — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 04:19:41 GMT

> Is there any way I can see the log in log window also and get one extracted as well.

Sadly SAS has not implemented this very useful feature.

So you have to resort to workarounds such as what @yabwon describes.