I have a large number of files, each of which follows a similar format. In each one there is a section I want to focus on which looks like this
Company Name Acme Inc
Something:
this
Something else:
that
Something else:
etc.
Sales
2011 Sales:
€3,000
()
2010 Sales:
€2,000
()
2011 Growth Rate:
50.00%
Contact Details
Essentially I want to parse only the sales figures (and accompanying headings) from this text file into a csv file, so it would look like below
Company Name 2011 Sales 2010 Sales 2011 Growth Rate
Acme Inc 3,000 2,000 50.00%
Ideally I would love to have a single piece of code to run through the many similar text files and create a single csv file of all this sales data but since I'm completely new to Perl, probably wiser to try get the first file done first! I imagine Perl is the best tool for this task but I'm at a loss how to start so any guidance would be most appreciated!
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