Date:         Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:54:39 -0500
Reply-To:     Kevin Viel <kviel@EMORY.EDU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Kevin Viel <kviel@EMORY.EDU>
Subject:      SAS to the internet and reading HTML
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Greetings,

                I have a list of references for an on-line public data base.
I would like access this information and extract data
from the page.

                Is this possible to have SAS do it?  For instance, I need to
replace the XXX in the following URL:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=XXX with my reference of
interest.  I assume that I could INPUT the HTML and either repeat the
process or close the browser.  Is this possible and worthwhile in SAS.  I
have the academic license so I assume most modules are licensed.  I have
been manually saving the page as text and INFILEing it.

                I would appreciate any suggestion for FM's to read.

Thank you,

Kevin


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Kevin Viel
Department of Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30329