Papers in PDF format

advantage of the most current information. While the print version comes out twice a year (and quickly
becomes obsolete), the online versions are updated weekly. In addition, three versions of this catalog are
available from our web site: The United States version, the Canadian version, and the Japanese version. The
Online Publications Catalog is available via the Documentation/Publications section of the Customer Services
home page.
Each version of the Publications Catalog contains over 400 items; therefore, the print version of the catalogs is
large, and the topics are not always easy to find. With the WWW version, users no longer have to place a
phone call to find a title relating to a product; they can easily and efficiently browse a database that is sorted by
title, product, or even new releases [Fig. 1]. Another advantage of the Online version of the catalog is the link
to a sample "Table of Contents;" this option allows users to preview the contents of the book.
Figure 1: Example Publication from Database, complete with Order Form.
To create the searchable database, a WAIS index is built against the hundreds of entries in a SAS data set.
Once the index is built, a perl script queries the data and extracts the index-building topics. Once the index is
complete, the HTML page is created as a front-end to the index:
Sample Code - (partial Perl script)