Date:         Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:24:01 -0000
Reply-To:     Roland <roland.rashleigh-berry@VIRGIN.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Roland <roland.rashleigh-berry@VIRGIN.NET>
Organization: Virgin Net Usenet Service
Subject:      Re: how to supress the WARNING messages from the log file?

What you should be doing in any case is stripping out all messages you are
interested in and placing them in a separate file where you can pay close
attention to them. These won't include these particlular warning messages.
You should not only strip out warning and error messages but certain note
statements as well as they may contain vital messages which require your
attention.

I don't know if you work on Unix but perhaps this snippet will give you the
idea.

#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
  echo "Usage: scanlogs *.log" 1>&2
  exit 1
fi
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
awk '{if ( ( index($0,"ERROR") == 1 || index($0,"WARNING") == 1 \
|| index($0,"MERGE statement") > 0  \
|| index($0,"W.D format") > 0  \
|| index($0,"truncated ") > 0  \
|| index($0," 0 observations and ") > 0  \
|| index($0,"outside the axis range") > 0  \
|| index($0,"NOTE: Invalid") == 1 \
|| index($0,"uninitialized") > 0 ) \
&& index($0,"Errors printed on") == 0 \
&& index($0,"scheduled to expire on") == 0 \
&& index($0,"product with which") == 0 \
&& index($0,"representative to have") == 0 )
{printf "%-30s %-80s\n","'$1'",$0}}' $1
shift
done




"Vincent Girard" <v__girard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5xz68.6407$8N.372723@carnaval.risq.qc.ca...
> dear SAS-ler,
> After going through the SAS online doc and SAS-L archives, I could fing no
> references on the possible way to cut the WARNING about the < Please
contact
> your SAS installation representative... ect etc  expiration date of the
SAS
> products>
> thanks
> Vincent
>
>
>