What should I use to make a log parser?

I wanna make a simple program that will read the log files from scorched earth 3D (as a test, so I can try it again for something much larger), combine the stats (total kills, etc) and display them/possibly output them to a new file.

What langages are best suited for this? I'm already leaning towards C#, but I'm open to suggestions.

Also, note that I want to read already existing logs, not add them as they come up to an already existing database.

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>oh... i don't know... learn perl?!

Brilliant!

I say we celebrate with a Mike's Hard Lemonade!


Okay, so I've found an IDE (perlIDE, from sourceforge) and I've spent a few hours browsing through perl links and documents, and while a lot of the commands are sorta simple to see what they're doing, the syntax and expressions are confusing the hell out of me. All the so-called "tutorials" are anything but; it's like they're all hinting at expressions and references and otherwise basic termonologies that I can't seem to find explanations for.

tl;dr: I'm an idiot. How do I learned perl?