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SAS file name: logtotxt
File location: 
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Purpose: To demonstrate how to output the SAS log to an external text file with PROC PRINTTO
Author: Peter Clemmensen
Creation Date: 01/01/2019

This program supports the example page "Output Log to Text file in SAS with PROC PRINTTO" on SASnrd.com

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/* Redirect log to txt file */
proc printto log="c:\Users\Peter\Desktop\MyLog.txt";
run;

/* Run some SAS code */
data MyData;
   do i=1 to 100;
      output;
   end;
run;

/* Redirect the log back to the SAS editor */
proc printto;
run;