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- From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: SAS compared to Perl
- Message-ID: <88xnc==.jfh@netcom.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 01:29:39 GMT
- References: <hhg1-110992064042@132.197.14.85> <2axnl0d.jfh@netcom.com> <1992Sep13.211257.26114@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- In article <1992Sep13.211257.26114@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Fulton) writes:
- >
- >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).
-
- Regular expressions are certainly one of the crowning glories of perl. It
- would be nice if they could be added to SAS as well, if SAS's syntax
- permits the ffull power of RE's to be used. In fact, the person at SAS who
- might do it reads this list (hint, hint).
-
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