EG log BOTH in Log window and external file

[Mushy]

Hello,

How could we put the log in both log window and external file when we run a program in EG?

Thanks in Advance!

[Quentin · Accepted solution]

It would be nice if this was as easy as specifying the ALTLOG option to write the log to a file.  Unfortunately, you can't specify ALTLOG during a SAS session.  If you think SAS should change that, please upvote: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SASware-Ballot-Ideas/Allow-ALTLOG-to-be-specified-on-OPTIONS-statemen...

That said, a workaround I sometimes use it to use PROC PRINTTO to send the log to a file, then when I want to see the log I set PROC PRINTTO back to log=log, and stream the logfile back to the log window.  Something like:

*send log to file ;
filename logfile "%sysfunc(pathname(work))/mylog.log" ;
proc printto log=logfile new ;
run ;

*main stuff;
proc means data=sashelp.shoes ;
run ;

*read the log back into the log window ;
proc printto log=log;
run;

data _null_;
  infile logfile;
  input;
  putlog _infile_;
run;

[Mushy]

Hi Quentin,

Thanks for the solution.

Mushy