Yes, all of them. Programming is real life isn't it?

SAS seemed to be jolly expensive. You could learn R, R is free and seems to be regarded well. http://www.r-project.org/

Sounds like you want Text Analytics or Text Mining (both in wikipedia)

//(c++) forward only (not just for 0-9)
void doit( int nitems, int col, vector v=vector(), int colval=0 )
{
if ( col==0 ){
for (int i(0); i < v.size(); ++i) cout << " " << v[i];
cout << endl;
return;
}

for( int i(colval); i < nitems; ++i ){
vector v1 = v;
v1.push_back(i);
doit( nitems, col - 1, v1, i+1 );
}
}

kick it off with

doit( nitems, ncols)

modified on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:31 AM

It would be nice if Programmer of the Month (http://dinsights.com/POTM/[^]) could be revived (possibly that's the one you found). Spent a lot of time coding solutions to the problems there, without too much success. I think it took a lot of time of the moderator to run it though. Some others I can't vouch for: http://www.recmath.org/contest/[^] http://www.spoj.pl/[^] And of course: http://www.ioccc.org/[^]