Can Perl do it? Of course. Perl can do just about anything you'd want to do with data. If you come to this site asking "should I use Perl for this job?" the answer is almost always "YES!" =)

I recommend having a good Perl book around, though, because you *will* have to learn some Perl to put a script to work. And after you learn Perl, if you're like most us, you'll stop doing other things ... >=)

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor