scan data if particular observation not found abort

[help09]

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
cbf

[Cynthia_sas]

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?

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cynthia

[help09]

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 .