I have no words to thank all SAS-L people.....no matter who posts and who answers, members in sas-l always give the best ideas and solutions apart spending their precious time for anyone who raises a question....i always had this in mind but when i saw Mark's post I couldnt control myself....thanks Mark for your example....it helps a lot...

hari

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:32:48 -0800, Terjeson, Mark <Mterjeson@RUSSELL.COM> wrote:

>Hi Hari, > >Both %PUT and PUT can be used to create >color accentuated messages in the log. > >If the first 5 characters in your message >are uppercase and match "NOTE:" then your >message line in the log will be the NOTE >color. > >If the first 6 characters in your message >are uppercase and match "ERROR:" then your >message line in the log will be the ERROR >color. > >If the first 8 characters in your message >are uppercase and match "WARNING:" then your >message line in the log will be the WARNING >color. > > >e.g. > > > >option nosource; > >%put; >%put This is regular log color.; >%put; >%put Color activated tokens, with the prompt displayed.; >%put ==================================================; >%put NOTE: This is NOTE color, with the prompt.; >%put ERROR: This is ERROR color, with the prompt.; >%put WARNING: This is WARNING color, with the prompt.; >%put; >%put Color activated tokens, with the prompt blanked out.; >%put (not removed ... note the indenting remains); >%put ====================================================; >%put NOTE- This is NOTE color.; >%put ERROR- This is ERROR color.; >%put WARNING- This is WARNING color.; >%put; > > > >data _null_; > put; > put 'This is regular log color.'; > put; > put 'Color activated tokens, with the prompt displayed.'; > put '=================================================='; > put 'NOTE: This is NOTE color.'; > put 'ERROR: This is ERROR color.'; > put 'WARNING: This is WARNING color.'; > put; > put 'Color activated tokens, with the prompt blanked out.'; > put ' (not removed ... note the indenting remains)'; > put '===================================================='; > put 'NOTE- This is NOTE color.'; > put 'ERROR- This is ERROR color.'; > put 'WARNING- This is WARNING color.'; > put; >run; > > >option source; > > > > > > >Hope this is helpful. > > >Mark Terjeson >Senior Programmer Analyst, IM&R >Russell Investment Group > > >Russell >Global Leaders in Multi-Manager Investing > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of >Hari Nath >Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:23 AM >To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU >Subject: Re: %put error in log > >Many thanks Guido, Mark and Joyce.....i didnt try 'put' at first for the >reason being that %put will produce color logs....but even put statement >produces color logs.....thanks for letting mw know about that... > >helped me a lot.... >hari > >On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:16:54 -0600, Joyce <joycegeorge@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > >>AND U DONT NEED TO USE %PUT; >>just use PUT stmt. >> >>-Jo >> >>On 2/1/07, Hari Nath <hari_s_nath@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> Iam trying to put a log message when i have multiple patients, but >the >>> code below doesnt seem to produce the right log eventhough i dont >>> have >any >>> repeats in patients, the log has the message "check error" >>> irrespective >of >>> multiple patients. >>> I know am wrong somewhere, can someone correct me..... >>> >>> Many thanks >>> hari >>> >>> >>>>>>>>>>>sas 8.2<<<<<<<<<< >>> >>> proc sort data=temp2 out=test2 ; >>> by ptno visit ; >>> run ; >>> >>> data temp3 (keep=ptno centre terma actevent); >>> set test2 ; >>> by ptno visit ; >>> if centre=1001; >>> if not last.ptno then >>> do ; >>> delete; >>> %put ERROR: check error at this centre ; >>> end ; >>> run ; >>>