Hi Folks!,   I hope this helps!.   This can be done using SAS arrays easily. Below code works fine to find the header of lowest value in  a list.   ... View more

Hey Folks! I love the scanner program but i too written a  similar piece of program to find any pattern from a log file or sas program.   You can mention a wild card characters (*) in datalines to search in multiple files or sas codes.   Hope this will helps!  Learn Together !  Grow together !   Here's my program:   data code;    length fileloc myinfile $ 512 Log_file_name $100. ;    input fileloc $ ;       infile dummy filevar=fileloc            filename=myinfile end=eof LRECL=512 truncover dsd ;     do while(not eof);      input  ; linenum + 1; if index(_infile_, 'ERROR') then output; Log_file_name=myinfile;    end;    put 'Finished reading ' myinfile=;     datalines;  &logdir./&filename.  /*Your log filename here including directory  -  Ex : /work/prod/outputfile*.log */ ; run; ... View more