ERRORABEND vs ENDSAS vs ABORT

[Ps8813]

Hi,

Couldn't find the difference between ERRORABEND , ENDSAS ,ABORT.

What i understand is ,all terminate the SAS session if encounter error. But what is the difference and when to use which statement.

Thanks 

[LinusH]

From top of my head:

Errorabend ends the SAS session when an error occurs. Use when you wish to make sure that nothing else will be executed.

Endsas ends the SAS session in a nice peaceful way, at your command.

Abort also ends the session but gives you some options to leave a RC back the calling program, like a UNIX she'll, scheduler etc.

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

ERRORABEND is a SAS System option, causing the system to immediately exit when an error is encountered (default is to continue with obs=0)

ENDSAS and ABEND are statements; ENDSAS simply terminates the SAS job or session gracefully, while ABORT also gives you control over the exit code handed back to the operating system.

ABORT terminates the current step, sets obs=0 and lets the SAS session/job continue (default behaviour for ERRORs)

ABORT ABEND terminates the step and terminates the SAS session/job immediately.