Re: [MacPerl] Newby...

[Jonathan Eunice <jonathan@illuminata.com>]

Jason and Melissa White (jasnmelis@itsnet.com) wrote:

>Can anyone point me to good sources for getting started with [MacPerl...]?

I usually start at http://www.perl.com/macperl.html and follow the links 
from
there. 

>We have massive amounts of info that we will want to extract out [...]

That's what it's for...and it does the job great.

>can Perl check characteristics such as bolding, Italics etc.  I would assume 
so, 
>but just ask anyway.

In HTML, no sweat.  If you're talking about word-processing documents, 
that's
harder--often much harder.  Then you've got to parse various file formats 
that
are complex at minimum, not to mention proprietary and un- or 
poorly-documented.

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