topic Re: Error with empty attach variable in SAS Procedures

Error with empty attach variable

ankit1may — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:03:14 GMT

Hello all,
I am quite new to SAS and is facing challenge with respect to emails sent with SAS code.
I have to send an email "Good Day" , when there are no files to attach, and if there are any files, I have to attach the file in the email . All files needed to be attached are put in macro variable &all_files. I have defined a control variable &bha, which if 0, would mean that there are no files to attach, but if it is greater than 0, there are files to attach. The problem is , when I don't have any files to attach, the variable &all_files = '', and the code is giving error in attach statement. My coffee is below:

Filename outbox 'abc@xyz.com';

Data _null_;
If &bha =0 then do;
File outbox
From = my mail
To = xxx
Subject = 'reports';
Put 'Good Day';
End;

Else if &bha ne 0 then do;
File outbox
From = my mail
To = xxx
Subject = 'reports'
Attach= (&all_files);
Put 'attach are reports';
End;
Run;

Whenever there are no files to send, the code gives me error 'invalid value for the attach option'.

Can someone please help?

Re: Error with empty attach variable

RW9 — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:41:58 GMT

Email from dataset is not switchable like that, you would need to wrap it in macro, something like:

%macro SendMail (bha=);

  data _null_;
    %if &bha.=0 %then %do;
      file outbox from=mymail to=xxx subject='reports';
      put 'Good Day';
    %end;
    %else %do;
      file outbox from=mymail  to=xxx subject='reports' attach=(&all_files.);
      put 'attach are reports';
    %end;
  run;

%mend SendMail;

%SendMail (bha=1);   /* For no reports, just change 1 to 0 */

Re: Error with empty attach variable

ankit1may — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:52:28 GMT

It really worked. Thank you:)

Re: Error with empty attach variable

mark1221 — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:30:29 GMT

There are various substitutions that cannot be used as a parameter expansion. You have to map the root directory as well as you have to make sure that name will not be used in the directory name.

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