You could put SAS into syntax check, obs=0 mode based on some condition. You will need to check the exact options that need to be set.

On 1/25/12, Bolotin Yevgeniy <YBolotin@schools.nyc.gov> wrote: > This has probably been asked before but I can't seem to find what I > want... > > Is there a simple command I can write in code to force SAS to abort the > currently submitted code (i.e. equivalent to Cancel Submitted Statements > from the Break menu), that DOESN'T actually shut down SAS in the process > like ABORT does? > Even if the abort cannot be made conditional, this can work wonders for > debugging (i.e. insert as a breakpoint) > > > I've seem some interesting approaches to doing this with macros > injecting comment delimiters (i.e. /* ) but this is both way too > complicated for what I'm doing and requires way too much work to > implement on existing projects > > > > Using SAS 9.2 on WinXP (32 bit) >