in reply to scripts that can parse the data from the text files and import them into a normalized database

You seem to have (or have been given by someone else) a fair specification, this isn't a code writing service, we're not here to do this for you. If you're new to perl see:

Once you have some actual perl problems, feel free to ask for help.

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