Whenever I see phrases like "SAS provides a complete framework for delivering high-value enterprise intelligence that optimally integrates individual technology components within your existing infrastructure.", I assume they've been generated by some jargon program. Having looked at a few pages on the site, I *still* can't work out what SAS actually does...

Does Perl have powerful data manipulation and summarisation abilities

Yes, hence the acronym "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language".

...the right direction to start learning it

Check out "Learning Perl", written by our very own merlyn, published by O'Reilly and available pretty much eveywhere. (Hey merlyn - do I get any commission if he/she buys one? {g} )

Cheers, Ben.

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