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You have had some good suggestions.
A simple tool, useful in such situations, is the CANCEL option of the RUN
statement. Basically, the idea is to code
run &cancelswitch;
so that a step can be toggled on or off by manipulating the value of the
macrovariable (to blank or "CANCEL").
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:30:45 +0200, Arto Raiskio <arto-nospam@RAISKIO.COM>
wrote:
>I have some macrocode which looks like the following sample and the
question
>is how to best stop the code so that the proc printto is not executed and
>Zero byte reports files written (empty report files)
>
>code runs on windows, sas is version 9
>
>%macro something;
>data....(a datastep)
>proc ..(some procstep)
>
>proc printto file= (this would write output to a file if records exist)
>%mend;
>
>normally, on a mainframe job, one could use something like
>
>data _null_;set a nobs=nobs; if nobs=0 then abort abend 0001;run;
>
>what might be the easiest way to stop the macro just before the proc
printto
>?
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