Hello,

I have some understanding of Perl: I can look at code and pretty much figure out what it does, but I do not have the ability to write my own programs, yet. Here is my problem: Every few days I receive an e-mail from a client with a job listing. The information in the e-mail (job title, location, description, etc.) has to be put into a new HTML document and assigned a sequential number (jobXX.html). Next the Title, Location and Contact Information, has to be put into two separate files, one sorted by State and one sorted by Job Category, along with a link back to the HTML file with the rest of the information. Now, the infomation must be put in a certain part: In the sorted by State file, if the job is located in New York, it must be listed with the other New York jobs (in a HTML table), same for the sorted by Job, all "sales" jobs must be together. I've heard that Perl is very good for text processing, and this seems like a good job for it. I know it would be better to setup a database instead of static HTML files, but that is not possible right now. If someone would like to point me in the right direction that would be great.

Thanks,

andy j.

In reply to Parsing e-mail and building HTML by rograndom

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