Best tools to parse reports

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Published on 2010-04-13T16:02:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 16:13 UTC
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I have a report that I need to parse/scrape for loading into an alternate or query-able data store.

The report looks like something akin to: this.

My gut is that PERL would do a decent job, but I have several different permutations of the report and I don't really want to make a script around each form.

This report is a pretty stock type report, and I have seen where Monarch Pro can parse these types of reports, but I have had a difficult time finding alternatives to how these could be parsed since I'm looking to do this working primarily in a Linux environment.

Any suggestions?

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