topic Stop the program from continuing to run in SAS Programming

Stop the program from continuing to run

shlomiohana — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:37:03 GMT

Hello,

My program is divided so that there is a main program called 000_batch that running all other programs, look like:

%let pgm=C:\Users\freet\Desktop\SAS;

%include &pgm.010_batch;

%include &pgm.020_batch;

I want to give IF conditions in the program 010_batch that if the condition will met the SAS program will be stopped completely and not continue to 020_batch program.

I would appreciate your assistance

Re: Stop the program from continuing to run

Reeza — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:49:26 GMT

It depends a bit on your version of SAS but assuming you're 9.4M5+ something like this works:

%if insertCondition %then %do;
    %include .....;
%end;

%else %if insertCondition2 %then %do;
    insert other code;
%end;

%else %do;
       insert other code here;
%end;

@shlomiohana wrote:

Hello,

My program is divided so that there is a main program called 000_batch that running all other programs, look like:

%let pgm=C:\Users\freet\Desktop\SAS;

%include &pgm.010_batch;

%include &pgm.020_batch;

I want to give IF conditions in the program 010_batch that if the condition will met the SAS program will be stopped completely and not continue to 020_batch program.

I would appreciate your assistance

Re: Stop the program from continuing to run

Shmuel — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:09:56 GMT

Stopping a sas to run depends on what kind of condition is and what exactly you want to stop::

(1) In case the condition is based on input data then use:

If <condition> then stop run;

or if you want to cancel the batch job,or the sas sesssion you can use:

if <condition> then abort [abend] <return code>;

Better check the full documentation of ABORT statement.

(2) In case condition depends on outer arguments (suppose some macro variable or a return code from a sas step, then use @Reeza 's suggestion or code the macro program as:

%macro <macro_name>(...arguments ...);
       %if <condition> %then ...

      %else %if <condition to exit macro >
                      %then %goto exit;

     .......

%exit:
%mend <macro_name>;