[Archon]

I would like to learn more about cleaning up text files that need editing i.e. removing page numbers, adding indents to paragraphs, and creating a template for all text files to be converted to.

What should I begin learning about to accomplish this?

I have started to read a little about regular expressions and perl and I can use other programs or the Terminal (Mac OSX) to convert files. I am a somewhat experienced computer user but am not a programmer by any means.

I was hoping a Guru could tell me what to focus on to get Calibre to clean these files as they are imported.
OR
Give me a shortlist of what to learn to create scripts or small programs (Applescript or perl?) that I could drop a txt file or rtf file on and have it cleaned up and converted.


Taking all helpful advice.
Archon