Analyzing Your SAS Session with the SAS Log

Changing the Log's Appearance

Understanding and Customizing SAS Output: The Basics shows you how to customize your output. Except in an interactive session, you can also customize the log by using the PAGE and SKIP statements. Use the PAGE statement to move to a new page on the log; use the SKIP statement to skip lines on the log. With the SKIP statement, specify the number of lines that you want to skip; if you do not specify a number, then one line is skipped. If the number that you specify exceeds the number of lines remaining on the page, then SAS treats the SKIP statement like a PAGE statement and skips to the top of the next page. The PAGE and SKIP statements do not appear on the log.

The following output shows the result if a PAGE statement is inserted before the PROC PRINT step in the previous example:

Using the PAGE Statement

456  options source notes errors=20;
457  
458  data out.sat_scores5;
459     infile
459! '/dept/pub/doc/901/authoring/basess/miscsrc/rawdata/sat_scores.raw';
460     input test $ gender year score @@;
461  run;
NOTE: The infile 
      'YOUR-DATA-FILE' is:
      
      File Name=YOUR-DATA-FILE,
      Owner Name=userid,Group Name=dev,
      Access Permission=rw-r--r--,
      File Size (bytes)=1998

NOTE: Invalid data for gender in line 1 8-8.
RULE:     ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7
1         Verbal m 1972 531  Verbal f 1972 529 36
test=Verbal gender=. year=1972 score=531 _ERROR_=1 _N_=1
NOTE: Invalid data for gender in line 1 27-27.
test=Verbal gender=. year=1972 score=529 _ERROR_=1 _N_=2
NOTE: Invalid data for gender in line 2 8-8.
2         Verbal m 1973 523  Verbal f 1973 521 36
test=Verbal gender=. year=1973 score=523 _ERROR_=1 _N_=3
NOTE: Invalid data for gender in line 2 27-27.
test=Verbal gender=. year=1973 score=521 _ERROR_=1 _N_=4
   .
   .
   .
NOTE: Invalid data for gender in line 10 8-8.
10        Verbal m 1981 508  Verbal f 1981 496 36
test=Verbal gender=. year=1981 score=508 _ERROR_=1 _N_=19
NOTE: Invalid data for gender in line 10 27-27.
ERROR: Limit set by ERRORS= option reached.  Further errors of this type will 
       not be printed.
test=Verbal gender=. year=1981 score=496 _ERROR_=1 _N_=20
NOTE: 54 records were read from the infile 
      '/dept/pub/doc/901/authoring/basess/miscsrc/rawdata/sat_scores.raw'.
      The minimum record length was 36.
      The maximum record length was 36.
NOTE: SAS went to a new line when INPUT statement reached past the end of a 
      line.
NOTE: The data set OUT.SAT_SCORES5 has 108 observations and 4 variables.

465  proc print;
466     by test;
467  run;
ERROR: Data set OUT.SAT_SCORES5 is not sorted in ascending sequence. The 
       current by-group has test = Verbal and the next by-group has test = Math.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: There were 55 observations read from the data set OUT.SAT_SCORES5.

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