topic Put the ERROR message to the log in SAS Programming

Put the ERROR message to the log

SASdevAnneMarie — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:16:59 GMT

Hello Experts,

Is it posible to put the ERROR message to the log and stop the execution of the program with the special condition (for exemple if my values=0).

Thank you for your help !

Re: Put the ERROR message to the log

bigdataguy — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:25:11 GMT

Have a look at this: https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/engelref/2.8/p12s37oubobmmin1p82s4w69c820.htm

Re: Put the ERROR message to the log

jklaverstijn — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:00:09 GMT

Raiseerror() is part of the Dataflux datamanagement software. That may not be the proper context for this question.

If this is datastep, do something like this:

...
if value=0 then do;
   putlog "ERROR: Something went wrong and value is 0."
   abort abend 4;
end;
...

This will write a message to the log and terminate the program, returning a return code of 4 to the operating system. Other variants may apply. See the SAS doc for details.

Hope this helps,

- Jan.

Re: Put the ERROR message to the log

SASdevAnneMarie — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:04:47 GMT

Thank you jklaverstijn !