topic Re: Abort statement not executed in SAS Programming

Abort statement not executed

Mahesh_124 — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 13:48:56 GMT

Hi ,

I'm trying to execute below code and unable to run program.

please help me on this .

Thanks,

Mahesh .

%let flag=False;
%macro checkpoint();

%if %sysfunc(compress(&flag)) ="False" %then %do;
data _null_;
file print;
put "my program going to abort"
run;
%abort ;
%end;

%else %if %sysfunc(compress(&flag)) ="True" %then %do;
proc print data=sashelp.class;
run;

%end;
%mend;
%checkpoint;

Kurt_Bremser — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 14:41:41 GMT

What did you expect to happen, and what happened instead? Also post the log.

WarrenKuhfeld — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 15:31:47 GMT

%if &flag=False %then %do;

%else %if &flag=True %then %do;

Try formulating your Boolean expressions like this.