topic scan data if particular observation not found abort in SAS Procedures

scan data if particular observation not found abort

help09 — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:13:51 GMT

Hi All

I have a dataset which has below information if "xyz" is not there in that dataset it should abort the process and should not go further

abc
abc
abc
abc
abc
dfg
dfg
dfg
dfg
dfg
dfg
xyz
xyz
xyz
xyz
cbf
cbf
cbf
cbf
cbf
cbf

Thanks
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Re: scan data if particular observation not found abort

Cynthia_sas — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:37:00 GMT

Hi:
What is your "process" that needs to be aborted?? Reading the data? Displaying the data? Running a regression? Producing counts of the various codes? What program or procedure code composes your process? Is this variable the ONLY variable in the data set?

A bit more information from you is needed in order to provide meaningful suggestions.

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cynthia

Re: scan data if particular observation not found abort

help09 — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:17:59 GMT

Thanks For your reply

My Question is

- when a dataset contains above records i need to write a datastep in such a way that if 'xyz' is not there in that dataset then it should throw an error saying that 'xyz is not found' abort return .