"I've registered for a username here but looks like the request is still being considered"

You present yourself very well. I won't elaborate on that, but I assume you've been around the block and know what I'm speaking of.

You're more than welcome here, and I too prefer braces over indents.

I feel that Perl is right up your alley for what you've described. Many of the members (ahem: Monks) here have been around for some time, and have experience across countless competencies far beyond the Perl programming language itself. For me personally, I know I've answered questions here (and asked questions about) far reaching things such as networking, other languages (including real life dictionary linguistic translation), extremely detailed reporting mechanisms, and for me, when I ask questions as of the last few years, I ask the mathematicians for help with scientific algorithms that I can't come up with or understand myself.

I forget how the approval for a new account works as it's been some time, but we'll see if Corion can fast track any mechanism to get you included.

Welcome to Perlmonks. It has been, and still remains my favourite place on the Internet.

Thanks once again. "Extremely detailed reporting" is what I'm really interested in. Not sure if Perl will enable me to generate reporting with data and graphs in excel, but if it does, then I'd be a happy camper.

Most of the folks I know seem to believe that python is better suitable for this specific requirement but, I'd take that with a pinch of salt. From what I've seen both languages are equally capable.

I'm a down right dirty data person myself that can present reports for the best of the C-level folk. I've provided things like this for ages. That said, once you get into fancy stuff like "Excel", that's outside of my league in any language I write in (four fluently, several more on an as-needed basis).

Any chance you can show a snip of your data, along with a sample of how you want the output to look like?

Putting data into a spreadsheet is possible in any language. Where Perl excels (no pun intended) is compiling and preparing the data in an extremely efficient, portable, explainable, repeatable and most importantly reliable method where real experts can validate it. Not a bunch of people who just graduated. Not people who are 20 years or so old who think they know because their textbooks say. Perl experts *know* what they're talking about, because we've been at this stuff for decades.

Again, post example data and example desired output (in <code></code> tags of course), and we'll see.