topic Re: Large SAS Log created by PRXPARSE in SAS Programming

Large SAS Log created by PRXPARSE

suncawy — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:07:38 GMT

My SAS program contains a PRXPARSE statement, but it writes every changes it makes to the SAS log causing the log to balloon to over several gigabytes. I have suppressed what should be written to the log : options MSGLEVEL=N nonotes nosource NOPRINTMSGLIST noerrorabend missing=" " ;

Yet, it still writes everything the PRXPARSE is doing:

Is there a way to suppress these from writing to the log ?

Thank you.

Re: Large SAS Log created by PRXPARSE

Tom — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:20:08 GMT

PRXPARSE() is NOT writing those messages.

Check your code more carefully to see what statement is writing that message.

Re: Large SAS Log created by PRXPARSE

suncawy — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:29:20 GMT

Oh, I missed this in the code:

do i = 1 to dim(chars);
if chars[i] NE "" then DO;
if verify(strip(chars[i]),check) >0 then do;
put "fixing: " chars[i]=;
chars[i]= prxchange(rex_sub, -1, chars[i]);
put "fixed : " chars[i]=;
end;
end;
end;*do i;
drop i;

That's the culprit. Thank you.

Re: Large SAS Log created by PRXPARSE

Reeza — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:37:42 GMT

Those look to be from a PUT statement somewhere in the code, ie somewhere the code is explicitly printing that information to the log. That is not default log messages.

Re: Large SAS Log created by PRXPARSE

data_null__ — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:57:54 GMT

@suncawy wrote:

Oh, I missed this in the code:

do i = 1 to dim(chars);
if chars[i] NE "" then DO;
if verify(strip(chars[i]),check) >0 then do;
put "fixing: " chars[i]=;
chars[i]= prxchange(rex_sub, -1, chars[i]);
put "fixed : " chars[i]=;
end;
end;
end;*do i;
drop i;

That's the culprit. Thank you.

A bit off topic but from your picture of the log looks like nothing was changed. What is the value of CHECK and what is the regEX stored in REX_SUB? In other words what are you fixing?