Date:         Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:02:33 -0500
Reply-To:     diskin.dennis@KENDLE.COM
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From:         diskin.dennis@KENDLE.COM
Subject:      Re: Error with call system command:
Comments: To: SUBSCRIBE SAS-L surendra <surendranath.gujjala@INGENIX.COM>
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As far as I know, there is no way to suppress this message, but you can use
a simple work around of just concatenating 2 or more shorter strings in the
Call System argument:
call system ("export INF=&envi/clients/&client/raw/&filein; print John Your input file ${INF} ;" ||
             "export OUTF=&envi/clients/&client/temp/sortout&jobstreamID ;" ||
             "syncsort <<endofsort\n /infile  $INF 160 /outfile $OUTF 160 OVERWRITE /FIELDS wholerec 1 char160 /keys wholerec\n endofsort");

In fact, this might make it more readable/

HTH,
Dennis Diskin




From:  SUBSCRIBE SAS-L surendra <surendranath.gujjala@INGENIX.COM>
       @LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on 12/31/2002 09:41 AM

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Subject:    Re: Error with call system command:


Here is the code for which I'm getting error


data _null_;
call system ("export INF=&envi/clients/&client/raw/&filein; print John Your
input file ${INF} ;export
OUTF=&envi/clients/&client/temp/sortout&jobstreamID ; syncsort <<endofsort
\n /infile  $INF 160 /outfile $OUTF 160 OVERWRITE /FIELDS wholerec 1 char
160 /keys wholerec
\n endofsort");
run;