topic Re: Proc Printto - Multiple Print= statements in SAS Programming

Proc Printto - Multiple Print= statements

solfay243 — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 22:14:14 GMT

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to proc printto and was wondering if I could use the print= statement multiple times in order to have files made at multiple places.

Here's what I want:

- I'd like to have 1 file that includes my log and my proc outputs in one single stream and have been doing that by setting the log= statement and print= statement to the same file location.

- I'd also like a separate file made that only includes my proc outputs.

From playing around with SAS, it seems that proc printto will only utilize the last print= statement. I was wondering if there were an option I could use where I could get both at the same time or if there was a different procedure I could use. I could just use an ods rtf/excel/pdf each time, but I'm wondering how to keep this as a SAS .lst file.

Many thanks!

Re: Proc Printto - Multiple Print= statements

ChrisNZ — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 03:17:15 GMT

Like this?

ods listing file="%sysfunc(pathname(WORK))\outputs.lst";

Re: Proc Printto - Multiple Print= statements

solfay243 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:46:47 GMT

While this is a great suggestion, it seems that using ods listing file=; will negate the proc printto print=; statement and I end up with just two files with separate log and output results rather than the file results I desire.

Re: Proc Printto - Multiple Print= statements

Tom — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:15:52 GMT

You will probably need to use the ALTPRINT option. This needs to be specified when you call/launch SAS.

sas -altprint "output_only.lst"  -altlog "log_only.log"  myprogram.sas

Re: Proc Printto - Multiple Print= statements

ChrisNZ — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:39:58 GMT

> will negate the proc printto print=; statement

Oh no. Then the only way that I can think of in order to achieve your described goal is that you post-process the file with log+output to remove the log lines and create a second, output-only, file.

Re: Proc Printto - Multiple Print= statements

solfay243 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:47:13 GMT

For those interested, it would seem that short of using 3rd party software I have to make due with using ods rtf/pdf/excel to create an output only file in this case. I appreciate the replies here and we may have possibly found a new feature that SAS could work on implementing.