The REGISTRY Procedure

Example 4: Comparing the Registry to an External File

Procedure features:	COMPARETO=
Other features:	FILENAME statement

This example compares the SASUSER portion of the SAS Registry to an external file.

Program

filename testreg 'external-file';

proc registry compareto=testreg; run;

SAS Log

1 filename testreg 'external-file'; 2 proc registry 3 compareto=testreg; 4 run; 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.

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