From: xlr82sas on
On Mar 14, 6:02 pm, CC <chchanghe...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello dear all,
>
> Just a general question regarding text parsing using SAS.
>
> As we all know that PERL is kind of powerful about parsing text.  If I
> would like to do the same kind using SAS.  i.e.  search a specific
> term from a
> website or a news search engine (like Factiva  and LexisNexis ) for a
> certain period, then, count how many times it shows up in different
> articles during that same period for that company and match it
> with the main data in SAS.  Can anyone give me some resources or books
> regarding this kind of work, so, I can learn how to actually work on
> it?
>
>  Thanks in advance!!

Hi,

I think perl is a better tool for this kind of processing, however
some SAS users are working on very tight integration of perl and SAS
so users have the best of both worlds.

There may be some esoteric module 'SAS Enterprise Text Minor' that
could help, I am not sure. Also check perl CPAN and R CRAN. I think
there are perl modules that may be useful.