I am learning PERL little by little. I have no programming background and I am having a tough time navigating through my Learn PERL in 21 days book because I get bored, so I decided to start with a task and try and work backwards. I am a windows administrator and I have a text file that I have created that I would like to parse through and output into HTML to make it look a little nicer for our execs to look at. I keep getting stuck at where to start. From what I can tell I need to start with 
open (XCACLS, "xcacls.txt") or die "Cant open file: $!\n";

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But then I get stuck. I want to pull some data out and discard and then print some of it to an HTML file. Here is a snippet of what the data looks like from the text file 
Starting XCACLS.VBS (Version: 5.2) Script at 5/1/2006 11:02:33 AM

Startup directory:
"G:\"

Arguments Used:
    Filename = "*.*"
    /L (File: "xcacls.txt")



**********************************************************************
+****
File: G:\xcacls.txt

Permissions:
Type     Username                Permissions           Inheritance    
+       

Allowed  BUILTIN\Administrators  Full Control          This Folder Onl
+y      
Allowed  \Everyone               Read and Execute      This Folder Onl
+y      
Allowed  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM     Full Control          This Folder Onl
+y      

No Auditing set

Owner: BUILTIN\Administrators
**********************************************************************
+****

**********************************************************************
+****
Directory: G:\1500Jennilsa

Permissions:
Type     Username                Permissions           Inheritance    
+       

Allowed  OURDOMAIN\1500Jennilsa Modify                This Folder, Sub
+folde 
Allowed  BUILTIN\Administrators  Full Control          This Folder, Su
+bfolde 
Allowed  \CREATOR OWNER          Full Control          Subfolders and 
+Files  
Allowed  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM     Full Control          This Folder, Su
+bfolde 

No Auditing set

Owner: BUILTIN\Administrators
**********************************************************************
+****

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I would like to pull out all the stuff at the top where it talks about starting the script etc. and basically list the folder and who has access to it. So I think I would have to have an IF statement to read through the data and then pattern match looking for G:\. I feel a little overwhelmed

In reply to PERL newbie Cant figure out where to start by jwashburn

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