topic Re: message box in SAS Programming

message box

deleted_user — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:56:06 GMT

I have a piece of code that I want to execute only if a certain user-defined value is met. I wanted to set that user-defined value via a message box. Does anyone know of an "easy" way to create a message box in SAS or a way to execute code conditionally based on a user-defined value? Currently I hard-code the value and highlight which code I want to run based on that value.

Re: message box

sbb — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:01:13 GMT

Some important info: What SAS version, what OS platform used, whether you are executing the SAS application locally or on a remote server, and whether the SAS processing occurs interactively or batch mode?

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

Re: message box

deleted_user — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:08:14 GMT

Version 9.1.3, OS = Windows 5.1.2600, executing the app locally on my client, interactive SAS

Thanks

Re: message box

ChrisNZ — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:16:48 GMT

have you looked at %window?
[pre]
%let var=;
%window welcome color=white
#5 @28 'Welcome to SAS.' attr=highlight color=blue
#7 @15 "You are executing Release &sysver on &sysday, &sysdate.."
#9 @15 'What is your name? ' var 20 attr=rev_video c=blue required=yes
#12 @29 'Press ENTER to continue.';
%display welcome;
%put The name is &var.;