So in response to the comments on this and also my badly formatted one:

The files containing the information are quite standardized and in .txt format written in English. Every filing contains the phrase "the board of directors recommends to vote for/against...". Basically I want to match the outcome of the votes (which I already have in a database) being PASS or FAIL with a simple recommendation being YES or NO which I hope to obtain from the filings with Perl.

Also I'm wondering how the final output of the Perl program could look like. This is because I will have to merge the already existing vote outcome database with their corresponding recommendations. Is this also something that can be done?

Thanks for the quick replies!

In reply to Re: Perl Possibilities by Gideau
in thread Perl Possibilities by Gideau

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