topic Initiating a SAS program run from within UltraEdit in SAS Programming

Initiating a SAS program run from within UltraEdit

JacquesR — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 07:59:22 GMT

Hi all

I use UltraEdit for the bulk of my coding. Are there any other UltraEdit & SAS users out there who might be able to help with (or benefit from) this?

I have "heard rumours" that it might be possible to send the program through to SAS from within UltraEdit.

See, for example, this post from a SAS staffer (a decade old, unfortunately).

https://www.ultraedit.com/support/tutorials-power-tips/ultraedit/sas.html

I also see some attempts in the SAS forums, but none with satisfactory solutions:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Ultraedit-to-run-SAS-programs/m-p/281497

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-setup-notepad-or-ultra-edit-to-run-the-SAS-codes/m-p/707481

I tried getting that original tutorial to work, but keep running into problems. The first was spaces in the file path, which I partly resolved, but not completely.

I also tried posting on the UltraEdit forums, but so far with no success.

http://forums.ultraedit.com/viewtopic.php?p=65115

The important part of the *.bat file now looks like this:

%EXESAS% ^
-CONFIG %CONFIGSAS% ^
-autoexec %AUTOEXECSAS% ^
-sysin ('type %1') ^

-log ('type %2') –nodms

It seems as if the *.sas program file is now fed through correctly to SAS, but still not the log file.

See the Command window output below:
C:\Users\...\OneDrive - The University ...\...\Develop Run and Debug your SAS Programs in UltraEdit_files>
"c:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe"
-CONFIG "c:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\sasv9.cfg"
-autoexec "c:\Users\...\OneDrive - The University ...\...\Develop Run and Debug your SAS Programs in UltraEdit_files\autoexec.sas"
-sysin ('type C:\Users\...\OneDrive" - The University ...\!USyd Projects\Google "Trends\Data_management\Cov\test.sas')
-log ('type C:\Users\...\OneDrive') ûnodms

And there is a problem with the nodms option. This is what I get in SAS:

ERROR: Unrecognized SAS option name ÛNODMS.
ERROR: (SASXKRIN): KERNEL RESOURCE INITIALIZATION FAILED.
ERROR: Unable to initialize the SAS kernel.

Any ideas about how to send through the nodms SAS option?

Thanks

Re: Initiating a SAS program run from within UltraEdit

japelin — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 08:39:02 GMT

From the path, I think your environment is Windows, is that correct?
If it is Windows, I think nodms was disabled, so try to run it without the option.

First, check SAS startup by specifying only -config.
Next, add -sysin to check the operation of batch execution
Next, add -autoexec and check the operation.
Next, add -log to check the output log .
I think it is a shortcut to add and verify options one by one like this

Re: Initiating a SAS program run from within UltraEdit

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 08:44:06 GMT

Your hyphen is not a hyphen, but a UTF character that looks like one. Always avoid any kind of word processor when writing code, only use a text editor, and be very careful when copy/pasting code from places where a word processor or some kind of web editor might be involved.

These are your character, followed by a true hyphen:

– -

When looking carefully, you see the size difference.

Or run this code (the "hyphen" was copy/pasted from your code):

data _null_;
string = "–";
checkstring = put(string,$hex6.);
put string= checkstring=;
run;

Re: Initiating a SAS program run from within UltraEdit

AllanBowe — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:30:31 GMT

We'll be adding this functionality to the SASjs VS Code extension soon. We have Viya support already, SAS 9 (metadata) should be a week or so, and Desktop SAS will be in 3-4 weeks.