In this example, you'll see how to use a SAS macro and a Do loop in the Data step to loop through dates in SAS. Using the INTNX() function, we can loop over dates based on an offset value. INTCK() can be used to determine the number of months to generate Using the Data step to [...]
If the file is empty, the PROC PRINT can read it, but nothing is printed, not even the headers of the report. This article shows a workaround to Print Empty SAS dataset information to the output window. Method
The macro checks determine if the external file is empty in SAS. An error message is written to the log if it doesn't exist. SAS attempts to read the data from the file if the file exists. Data access functions like FOPEN, FREAD, and FGET are used to retrieve the data. The message is written to [...]
