Dearest Perl Monks,

I have a question regarding the possibilities of perl that I'm desperately seeking to answer... The situation is as follows:

Currently I'm writing my Master's thesis in which I'm planning on using Perl to analyze certain filings and extract information from it. We're talking about a couple of thousand of them, making doing it by hand not feasible. In every one of these filings there is a certain recommendation that is given on a proposal (as in: he/she recommends to vote for/against the proposal). This recommendation is the piece of information I need, and thus I want to extract this with Perl from the filings, combining the recommendation with the issued proposal in order to successfully continue my research. My questions thus are: is it possible to do this with Perl? And, if possible, how difficult would it be to create a code that does exactly that? Basically I would need to extract the recommendation, and the proposal he/she recommends on in a way so that I can use it for further statistical analysis in e.g. Stata.

I wrote it as concise as possible, but I hope it's complete enough:).

I hope you splendid monks have the answer to all my questions! Thanks in advance:).

UPDATE:

Here a link to an example filing: Filing example

The filing originally is in .html, however I downloaded a couple of thousands with a script ending up with .txt files which have all the html code in it around the text, which makes it less readable; at least to the human eye.

In reply to Perl Possibilities by Gideau

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