Date:         Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:08:53 -0600
Reply-To:     Nishant Dholakia <nishant.dholakia@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Nishant Dholakia <nishant.dholakia@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: title not printing
Comments: To: Venky Chakravarthy <swovcc@hotmail.com>
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I was doing it on non interactive mode. I did close
the file and reopened it just to be sure.

Here's an example to get my point across better

*fyi : xxx  is not empty*

eg
108        proc print data=xxx(obs=0);
109        title "test";
110        run;

NOTE: No observations in data set WORK.XXX
NOTE: PROCEDURE PRINT used:
      real time           0.02 seconds
      cpu time            0.02 seconds

Title is printed in this case.

However when I do this (*here log_file is not empty*)

 %if &nob = %str(0) %then %do;
  %put NO ERRORS OR WARNINGS;
  proc print data=log_file (obs=0);
  title2 "NO WARNINGS OR ERROR IN CODE ";
  run;
 %end;
**

* LOG*

MLOGIC(LOGCHECK):  %IF condition &nob = 
0 is TRUE
MLOGIC(LOGCHECK):  %PUT NO ERRORS OR WARNINGS
NO ERRORS OR WARNINGS
MPRINT(LOGCHECK):   proc print data=log_file(obs=0) ;
MPRINT(LOGCHECK):   title2 "NO WARNINGS OR ERROR IN CODE ";
MPRINT(LOGCHECK):   run;

NOTE: No observations in data set WORK.LOG_FILE.
NOTE: PROCEDURE PRINT used:
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds

There is no title printed

This is what baffles me.


On 3/23/06, Venky Chakravarthy <swovcc@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nishant,
>
> You are probably running interactively and have left overs from a previous
> run. Look carefully, if you have a Title you should have something in the
> body unless you do something fancy as in the second situation below.
>
> An empty data set will not print and should not be having a title printed
> either. To confirm this close and open your SAS session (after saving what
> you have :-).) and try to run the following as your first job.
>
> data test ;
> x = "abcdefg" ;
> stop ;
> run ;
>
> title "This is an empty dataset" ;
> proc print data = test ;
> run ;
>
> On the other hand if you really want to print the title with no body try
> the
> following:
>
> options nodate nonumber ;
> data test2 ;
> x = " " ;
> label x = "00"x ;
> run ;
>
> title "This is NOT REALLY an empty dataset" ;
> proc print data = test2 nobs label ;
> run ;
>
> Venky Chakravarthy
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:14:55 -0500, Nishant Dholakia
> <nishant.dholakia@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> >I was trying to write in a code to analyse the logs produced. The program
> >works fine except for one minor issue. There is a proc print on an empty
> >dataset because I want to print out a title and after execution the title
> >does not print even though the proc print is executed.
> >This is the interesting part of the log
> >
> >NOTE: No observations were selected from data set WORK.LOG_FILE.
> >NOTE: There were 0 observations read from the data set WORK.LOG_FILE.
> >      WHERE (UPCASE(log)=:'WARNING') or (UPCASE(log)='ERROR');
> >
> >NOTE: PROCEDURE PRINT used:
> >      real time           0.00 seconds
> >      cpu time            0.00 seconds
> >
> >Now does this mean that the print was not executed because real time as
> >well as cpu time is 0.
> >I tried proc print on several other empty datasets with only title
> >statementts and they run fine (as in the title is printed).
> >
> >Its just an interesting observation. Comments would be really welcome coz
> i
> >wont be able to sleep until I figure this one out...hope I am not doing
> >something really silly.
>



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