Hi I have been assigned a task of writing a parsing engine for a legacy system. I will be extracting information from reports which are dumped as text files and need to move the information into a MSFT SQL Database.

The infornmation comes in multiple formats so I want to define xml files with the information about the file to be parsed. It will hold header info, field names, delimeters,etc.

Then I want to pass the config.xml file and the text dump file to the engine to output to the database.

Does this sound like a job for perl? I have been told this is the best approach as this is what perl does best.

Any pointers to some code which would get me started on this would be appreciated.

Sal

In reply to looking for some guidance before I dive in by Anonymous Monk

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