Date:         Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:54:28 -0500
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
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From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: Customised error message?
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How do you test that variables? What is "invalid"?
It should be no problem to have what you want, like:


test-the-variable;
if test_not_ok then do;
  put "ERROR in variable X - it is 0 while it should be not!"
  stop;
end;

That might not be what you want, but tell a bit more: what means "invalid",
what are your tests like, what shall happen if error (ok, ABORT, but then
the log is gone! You should reroute the log to a dataset for that!), in what
environment you do it - e.g. the OS, in what mode (foreground, batch?)...
The more you tell us, the more the solution might be closer to that what you
want.

Regards,
Gerhard






On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:38:03 +0530, Mohit Bhatia <mohit.b.bhatia@AEXP.COM>
wrote:

>Hi.
> Basically I am checking some variables in the dataset and if there is a
>problem with a certain variable I abort my program. Now I want to know
>which variable caused the problem.  So I want customised error messages.
>
>Can we give a customised error message with abort statement.
>
>Or with any other statement which can stop the program.?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Mohit
>
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