Date:         Fri, 6 Feb 1998 15:55:03 -0500
Reply-To:     Michael Glasser <mglasser@DEANS.UMD.EDU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Michael Glasser <mglasser@DEANS.UMD.EDU>
Organization: University of Maryland
Subject:      Writing to two different output files
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Does anyone have any suggestions how I can write observations to a SAS dataset
and in the same step, conditionally write some data to another dataset.  I am
reading an external file into a SAS dataset and would like to report any errors
I encounter to another SAS dataset.  There can be multiple error records
created
from one observation.  The first dataset would contain all the fields in my
observations.  The second dataset, my error file, would contain one or two
fields and an error message as a character literal.  My hope would also be to
append to this error file as I read in other SAS datasets.
 
According to the manuals, this won't work, but I am looking for something like
...
 
DATA FILE1 ERROR1;
INFILE X;
INPUT A B C D E F;
IF A > 1 THEN OUTPUT ERROR1 'File X: ' A F 'A is over 1';
IF B > 1 THEN OUTPUT ERROR1 'File X: ' B F 'B is over 1';
OUTPUT FILE1;
 
DATA FILE2 ERROR1;
INFILE Y;
INPUT L M N O P;
IF L > 1 THEN OUTPUT ERROR1 'File Y: ' L P 'L is over 1';
IF M > 1 THEN OUTPUT ERROR1 'File Y: ' M P 'M is over 1';
OUTPUT FILE2;
 
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
--
Mike Glasser
 
Academic Data Systems
University of Maryland
mglasser@deans.umd.edu