Large SAS Log created by PRXPARSE

[suncawy]

My SAS program contains a PRXPARSE statement, but it writes every changes it makes to the SAS log causing the log to balloon to over several gigabytes.  I have suppressed what should be written to the log :  options MSGLEVEL=N nonotes nosource NOPRINTMSGLIST noerrorabend missing=" " ;

Yet, it still writes everything the PRXPARSE is doing:

Is there a way to suppress these from writing to the log ?

Thank you.

[Tom · Accepted solution]

PRXPARSE() is NOT writing those messages.

Check your code more carefully to see what statement is writing that message.

[suncawy]

Oh, I missed this in the code:

do i = 1 to dim(chars);
if chars[i] NE "" then DO;
if verify(strip(chars[i]),check) >0 then do;
put "fixing: " chars[i]=;
chars[i]= prxchange(rex_sub, -1, chars[i]);
put "fixed : " chars[i]=;
end;
end;
end;*do i;
drop i;

That's the culprit.  Thank you.

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@suncawy wrote:

Oh, I missed this in the code:

do i = 1 to dim(chars);
if chars[i] NE "" then DO;
if verify(strip(chars[i]),check) >0 then do;
put "fixing: " chars[i]=;
chars[i]= prxchange(rex_sub, -1, chars[i]);
put "fixed : " chars[i]=;
end;
end;
end;*do i;
drop i;

That's the culprit.  Thank you.

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A bit off topic but from your picture of the log looks like nothing was changed.  What is the value of CHECK and what is the regEX stored in REX_SUB?  In other words what are you fixing?

[Reeza]

Those look to be from a PUT statement somewhere in the code, ie somewhere the code is explicitly printing that information to the log. That is not default log messages.