I have about 3000 html files on my drive, each of them has item name, description,size, price etc.   I want to move it all into the database.   How should i create a script that would do the following or maybe you guys have seen script like this:

  1. take one html file at time scan through it
  2. pick the item name,description
  3. drop the html tags(this can be done at any time i guess)
  4. insert the picked values into new csv file

Since I'm new to perl, I'm still struggling with regular expressions and I think they are crucial for this little project.   So the big question is how do I pick the lines I want from these html files?   I know there is some patter ie the description always starts wits "Description:"

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In reply to Particular HTML contents to CSV or DB by nicpon

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