Invalid (or missing) arguments to the DATEPART function have caused the function to return a missing

[jffeudo86]

What is the effect of the above error/warning as far as the rest of the data is concerned once this error is encountered?  Does SAS stop processing the rest of the data or does it continue to process?  I won't be concerned if it continues to process the rest of the data.  Returning null is fine.

Thank you!

[PaigeMiller]

Is this an error or a warning? I seem to remember it is a warning.

In that case, I believe that the missing value is returned, and the remainder of the data is processed. What happened when you tried it?

[jffeudo86]

I don't know as the data is large so I can't tell if it stopped or not.

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

It continues to process and returns nulls. You can add an IFN() around it or IF/THEN to account for the missing values if the errors are problematic. I usually like to explicitly do this so I have a clean log.

[jffeudo86]

Thank you!