topic Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content in SAS Programming

Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Kc2 — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:54:55 GMT

Hello,

I am saving the log and lst files of my program but when I open the saved files the content is cut. In SAS windows when running the program the full content.

Any idea on how to solve this?

Interactive mode

Saved file

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

ballardw — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:34:38 GMT

How did you save the files? SAS Menu or commands, SAS Code, copy paste into some other application or something else?

What application are you viewing the saved LST and LOG files with?

Your application may only be showing some fixed number of columns.

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Kc2 — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:44:48 GMT

I Use the code;

dm output "print file='Study\..\lst\dm.lst' replace";
proc printto; run;

and I open the saved file with Notepad.

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Reeza — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 18:07:25 GMT

LINESIZE option. I think the default is 80 characters and I'm too lazy to count your output but that seems roughly right.

Try setting:

option linesize = max;

And re-running to see what happens.

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Reeza — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:00:19 GMT

And just in case, you know you can capture that output directly to SAS tables instead of text files so that you can process it and report it back out nicely in whatever format you want?

If not, here's some instructions and explanations on how to capture output that is shown into a SAS dataset.
https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/2017/03/31/capturing-output-from-any-procedure-with-an-ods-output-statement/

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Kc2 — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:19:50 GMT

The linesize option is already at max.

The issue seems to be the LST in the SAS interactive window is not left aligned

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Reeza — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:59:32 GMT

Your code isn't what I would expect to see.

dm output "print file='Study\..\lst\dm.lst' replace";
proc printto; run;

I would expect to see:

proc printto log='path to log file.log' print='path to lst file.lst'; run;

What happens if you use that instead of the DM command.

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Kc2 — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:35:51 GMT

I get the same outputs. Still getting cut.

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Reeza — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:45:17 GMT

Ran this using SAS 9.4M6. Output is attached with no truncation.

options linesize=max;

proc printto log='/home/fkhurshed/Demo1/demo_log.log' print='/home/fkhurshed/Demo1/demo_listing_output.lst'; run;

data class;
set sashelp.class;
if age in (12, 13) then sex = 'F';
run;

proc compare data=class compare=sashelp.class;
run;

Can you please run the following in your system and attach the exact output that is generated? You will need to modify the paths to be correct for your system.

@Kc2 wrote:
I get the same outputs. Still getting cut.

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Reeza — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:46:48 GMT

You could also switch to using an ODS LISTING statement instead but this should work AFAIK.

ods listing file = 'path to lst file';

sas code;

ods listing close;

And then the file specified above should have your output with no issues.

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Kc2 — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:00:51 GMT

This si the log;
[cid:161e34a5-b247-4db8-8928-adc459ec3dfe]

the lst file still shows the results right aligned instead of left
[cid:6e81b1ab-c6c0-4070-8851-170396f1b530]

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Reeza — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:58:03 GMT

No attachments - attachments via email are not supported you need to add them in the forum.

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Kc2 — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:15:51 GMT

I am not able to log into the community forum. It seems the site is down.

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Kc2 — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:19:02 GMT

These are the outputs;

log;

Lst:

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Tom — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:28:08 GMT

If you don't want the output centered the use the NOCENTER system option.

Re: Saved Lst and Log files output not showing the full content

Reeza — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:36:26 GMT

So the truncation issue is fixed?

And now your concern is the alignment of the text?

As @Tom mentioned, you can use the NOCENTER option to align to the left.

option nocenter;

@Kc2 wrote:

These are the outputs;

log;

Lst: