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Date:   Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:50:24 -0500
Reply-To:   Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:   "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:   Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:   Re: Somewhere between stopping just the data step and closing the entire SAS session. An example.
Comments:   To: Brian Wallace <brian_c_wallace@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To:   <349469.14705.qm@web50908.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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One option: put the rest of the code in a macro and conditionally execute the macro.

-Joe

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Brian Wallace <brian_c_wallace@yahoo.com>wrote:

> I just want to have a conditional statement that if true will halt > execution of the rest of the program but not end the entire SAS session. > > An example: > > DATA TEST; > INPUT CODE $5.; > CARDS; > 13255 > 35283 > 72547 > 07593 > 34634 > > 23626 > ; > RUN; > > DATA FULL EMPTY; > SET TEST; > IF CODE = '' THEN OUTPUT EMPTY; > ELSE OUTPUT FULL; > RUN; > > DATA CHECK; > SET EMPTY; > IF _N_ > 0 THEN ??????; > RUN; > > PROC PRINT DATA = FULL; > RUN; > > If there are any records in EMPTY, I don't want the rest of the program to > run. I don't want the program to print out FULL. > > Thank you for any time spent and/or suggestions, > > Brian Wallace >


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