Dear Dan,

Try ABORT ABEND or ABORT RETURN instead of ABORT.

Regards - Jim. -- Y. (Jim) Groeneveld, MSc IMRO TRAMARKO tel. +31 412 407 070 senior statistician, P.O. Box 1 fax. +31 412 407 080 senior data manager 5350 AA BERGHEM IMRO TRAMARKO: a CRO J.Groeneveld@ITGroups.com the Netherlands in clinical research

My computer has no idea what I am doing; sometimes the reverse also applies.

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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!