Stop SAS macro execution on error

Question

I am running a macro in SAS that occasionally generates errors like this:

ERROR: Sort execution failure.

The macro continues processing after this error, but I would like to force it to stop further execution. Is there a way to do this?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 27 '12 at 15:36

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Evaluating the automatic macro variable &syserr and conditionally calling %abort looks like it should work.

answered Sep 27 '12 at 15:36

itzy

Definitely seems the most reasonable way to do it. – Joe Sep 27 '12 at 15:44
If you aren't able to tag your own question as 'answered', someone with enough rep. might want to close this as answered. – Joe Sep 27 '12 at 21:36
Will do when I can; have to wait two days I think. – itzy Sep 28 '12 at 14:52

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