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trevand
Obsidian | Level 7

I am using SAS EG and create manually a log file:

 

%let logs=&root./logs;
proc printto log="&logs./log_file%sysfunc(date(),yymmddn6.)txt";
run;

When the code runs I get an empty screen and I cannot execute any other commands. Do I need to somehow close the log file?

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Ksharp
Super User

You need another PROC PRINTTO to end up with this proc printto:

%let logs=&root./logs;
proc printto log="&logs./log_file%sysfunc(date(),yymmddn6.)txt" new;
run;

............................................

proc printto ;
run;

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Ksharp
Super User

You need another PROC PRINTTO to end up with this proc printto:

%let logs=&root./logs;
proc printto log="&logs./log_file%sysfunc(date(),yymmddn6.)txt" new;
run;

............................................

proc printto ;
run;

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