Wow! It is just like that easy!!!! I just tried and it indeed worked.

Thanks WWV, Harry and Nancy.

Kind regards,

Ya -----Original Message----- From: William W. Viergever [mailto:wwvierg@attglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:12 PM To: Huang, Ya; SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: read in an existing log file to log window?

At 12:31 PM 11/20/2002 -0800, Huang, Ya wrote:

>Hi there, > >When you run a sas program interactively, you'll see the log file >in the log window, and of course you can see those warning and >errors highlighted with different color, my question is that >if it is possible to bring in an existing log file to log window >and still be able to see the color highlighted key words? > >SAS viewer dose not do it, nor dose SAS enhanced editor. I vaguely >remember somebody motioned long ago that one can set the color >code for enhanced editor, wonder if it can be used to review >the log file.

Hi Ya ... and Harry:

What I've done is to define, in the SAS Viewer, some bookmarks ( see view/options/bookmarks ):

ERROR: --> Red NOTE: --> Blue WARNING: --> Green skip the next line, then ... SYMBOLGEN --> Purple (magneta?)

Check it out; it may do what you're after.

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