Masterful munging monks!

I have some csv files, some txt files, and some xls files. These are all autogenerated reports from different places, with different fields/formats/etc.

I need to consolidate all these files into one report (which then gets imported into a db, but I'm not worried about the import to db step).

Anybody have a primer/tutorial on how to do this kind of data munging thing?

I've figured out that I'll probably wind up using text::csv for sucking in the text stuff and win32::ole for reading in xls, but I'm concerned about what kinds of pitfalls I'm likely to hit when combining the data, and looking for a tutorial about good tactics, and what to watch out for. Open to book recommendations as well.

In my own background check I came across Data Munging with Perl. Is this likely to help me? Thanks!

In reply to how to consolidate xls/csv/text into one report? by tphyahoo

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