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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: SAS compared to Perl
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.211257.26114@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Fulton)
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:12:57 GMT
- References: <hhg1-110992064042@132.197.14.85> <2axnl0d.jfh@netcom.com>
- Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Lines: 40
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- jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
-
- >In article <hhg1-110992064042@132.197.14.85> hhg1@gte.com (Hal German) writes:
- >>
- >>This is the text version of a paper presented at the Boston Area SAS User's
- >>Group recently. It will also be in the proceedings of the Northeast SAS
- >>Users Group. Enjoy !
-
- >I now do some things using perl on the PC that I would previously have
- >done in SAS. Both are useful. Perl is faster and has better string
- >manipulation capabilities; on the other hand, SAS has a lot of statistical,
- >graphical, and data entry tools that perl doesn't. Different tools for
- >different jobs.
-
- >SAS's major usage base is still on IBM mainframes, I believe. Has anyone
-
- Not any more I think, SAS runs on all sorts of systems from PCs to
- mainframes.
-
- Apart from that I second Jack's comments. I too use both sas and Perl,
- it is sometimes a toss up to decide which to use for a particular
- application. Like Jack said SAS's strength is its statistical and
- graphical capabilities. I also use SAS if the tables get really
- complicated.
-
- Actually I often use a mixture of the two. Example:
-
- For our network billing I use perl to analyse the raw email logs, reading
- addressess and deciding if the address is local or not (using a
- complicated list of regular expressions something that SAS can't do).
- From these log files I produce a cleaned up file with a record for each
- message that went off campus with all the data you would expect in a
- sensible format. This file is then read by SAS along with ftp and telnet
- logs and I then print the bills and produce other reports in SAS.
-
-
-
- --
- Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- <rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz>
-