Date:         Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:37:33 +0100
Reply-To:     Jim Groeneveld <J.Groeneveld@ITGROUPS.COM>
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From:         Jim Groeneveld <J.Groeneveld@ITGROUPS.COM>
Subject:      Re: ABORT statement
Comments: To: Dan Lu <z.lu@ATT.NET>
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Dear Dan,

Try ABORT ABEND or ABORT RETURN instead of ABORT.

Regards - Jim.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Lu [SMTP:z.lu@ATT.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:02 PM
> To:   SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      ABORT statement
>
> The abort statement does not stop the rest of the program. Why?
> &var1,&var2,&varA and &varB are from previous call symput statements.
>
> data dsn2;
>    set dsn1;
>    if (&var1 ne &varA) and (&var2 ne &varB) then abort;
> run;
>
> more steps.
>
> Thanks!