Hello - I am a .Net developer with very limited Perl knowledge. I am attempting to read some values from several files and output the value as a csv file. I can write an .exe in C# that can accomplish this, but due to security concerns I am not able to run a .exe on the server. I know Perl is already installed on the server and running a Perl script wouldn't raise any concerns. I've been reading through several Perl books, but haven't come across any examples on how to get this done. Any ideas/suggestions is greatly appreciated.

I have some files in a directory that looks like this:
1. - root
  1.1 - html
    1.1.1 - html2010
        file1.html
        file2.html
        file3.html
        etc
    1.1.2 - html2010
        file1.html
        file2.html
        file3.html

I need to read the content from the "description" and "keywords" meta (test1,test2,test3,testk1,testk2,etc) from each file and output it as a csv file.

The html pages look something like this:

<!-- File 1 -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/T
+R/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<title>Test Page1</title>
 <meta name="description" content="test1,test2,test3,test4,test5"/>
 <meta name="keywords" content="testk1,testk2,testk3,testk4,testk5"/>
</head>
<body>
 Body of the page 1
</body>
</html>

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<!-- File 2 -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/T
+R/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<title>Test Page2</title>
 <meta name="description" content="test6,test7,test8,test9,test10"/>
 <meta name="keywords" content="testk6,testk7,testk8,testk9,testk10"/>
</head>
<body>
 Body of the page 2
</body>
</html>

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I have a very limited understanding of Perl. Feel free to make a recommendation if you think there is another scripting language that is more suitable for accomplishing the above task

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