You'll probably want to use regular expressions. Try
http://perl.about.com/compute/perl/library/weekly/aa0925
99.htm?REDIR_404=yes&
It's got some nice examples of the regexp syntax as well
as how to actually use regular expressions in your perl
script...
Kathryn.
Quoting Ross Lynch <kernel at esatclear.ie>:
> Hey,
>> Can anyone point me in the direction of some
information on parsing
> files with Perl. Like, I'd like to be able to extract
the meaningful
> stuff from a file which may be otherwise rhubarb. Even
some good
> examples would do. Online material for preference.
>> Thanks,
> Ross.
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