in reply to Is Perl the right solution...

Well I would go with Apache over PWS, OpenSA has a nice win32 build (even if it is a little stale). And along those lines PHP could be a possibility. If you do a straight perl app I'd try Win32::GUI or wxPerl over Tk, since it'll look like a "real" application.

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perl -p -e "s/(?:\w);([st])/'\$1/mg"