REGISTRY Procedure

Example 3: Comparing the Registry to an External File

Features:	COMPARETO= option
Other features:	FILENAME statement

Details

This example compares the SASUSER portion of the SAS registry to an external file. Comparisons such as this one are useful if you want to know the difference between a backup file that was saved with a .txt file extension and the current registry file.

To compare the SASHELP portion of the registry with an external file, specify the USESASHELP option.

This SAS log shows two differences between the SASUSER portion of the registry and the specified external file. In the registry, the value of “Initialized” is “True”; in the external file, it is “False”. In the registry, the value of “Icon” is “658”; in the external file it is “343”.

Program

filename testreg 'external-file';

proc registry
   compareto=testreg;
run;

Program Description

Assign a fileref to the external file that contains the text to compare to the registry. The FILENAME statement assigns the fileref TESTREG to the external file.

filename testreg 'external-file';

Compare the specified file to the SASUSER portion of the SAS registry. The COMPARETO option compares the contents of a file to a registry. It returns information about keys and values that it finds in the file that are not in the registry.

proc registry
   compareto=testreg;
run;

Output: Log

Log Output from Comparing the Registry to an External File


Parsing REG file and comparing the registry please wait....
COMPARE DIFF: Value "Initialized" in
[HKEY_USER_ROOT\CORE\EXPLORER\CONFIGURATION]: REGISTRY TYPE=STRING, CURRENT
VALUE="True"
COMPARE DIFF: Value "Initialized" in
[HKEY_USER_ROOT\CORE\EXPLORER\CONFIGURATION]: FILE TYPE=STRING, FILE
VALUE="False"
COMPARE DIFF: Value "Icon" in
[HKEY_USER_ROOT\CORE\EXPLORER\FOLDERS\UNXHOST1]: REGISTRY TYPE=STRING,
CURRENT VALUE="658"
COMPARE DIFF: Value "Icon" in
[HKEY_USER_ROOT\CORE\EXPLORER\FOLDERS\UNXHOST1]: FILE TYPE=STRING, FILE
VALUE="343"
Registry COMPARE is now complete.
COMPARE: There were differences between the registry and the file.