topic Best Practice Regarding Creating New Log File in New Location in SAS Programming

Best Practice Regarding Creating New Log File in New Location

NKormanik — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:31:33 GMT

Just did some searching and reading on SAS log file directing. And, phew!, seems to be a crazy topic, all across the board.

Simply put, I'd like to process several datasets, one at a time:

aaa.sas7bdat

bbb.sas7bdat

ccc.sas7bdat

Each dataset resides within its own folder:

c:\1\aaa\aaa.sas7bdat

c:\1\bbb\bbb.sas7bdat

c:\1\ccc\ccc.sas7bdat

(I'd like to process all the datasets using a macro. But will inquire about how to do that tomorrow.)

For now, when processing aaa.sas7bdat, I would like to create a log -- log_aaa.txt -- within c:\1\aaa\.

Following completion of that process, I'd like to move on to bbb.sas7bdat. And during the process create a new log file -- log_bbb.txt. That file should reside in the respective c:\1\bbb\.

On and on....

You get the picture?

Any sage advice on how best to do this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Nicholas Kormanik

Re: Best Practice Regarding Creating New Log File in New Location

PaigeMiller — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 13:03:18 GMT

proc printto log="c:\1\aaa\log_aaa.txt"; /* Re-direct log to the file named */
run;

/* Any code for data set aaa goes here */

proc printto; /* Turns off sending log to file named above */
run;

Re: Best Practice Regarding Creating New Log File in New Location

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:54:17 GMT

This should get you an idea:

%macro process(loc=);

proc printto log="c:\1\&loc.\log_&loc..txt";
run;

libname process "c:\1\&loc.";

data temp;
set process.&aaa.;
/* further processing */
run;

proc printto log=log; /* reroute to default */
run;

%mend;

Then call that repeatedly:

%process(loc=aaa);
%process(loc=bbb);
%process(loc=ccc);

Re: Best Practice Regarding Creating New Log File in New Location

NKormanik — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:47:41 GMT

@PaigeMiller Clear as day!!

@Kurt_Bremser Uhhh..... (#@%!)