Newbie Help (WinXP)

There are 228 .html files I want to suck 4 items out of and put in a single
comma delimitted file, one line per .html file. I know how to build the
regular expressions to get the 4 items.

I know how to do this in *.NET and VB6 but I wanted to try to do it in Perl.
I downloaded perl from ActiveState.com and have successfully run a few
programs but I'm not being successful processing *.html on the command line.

I would really appreciate it if someone would reply with the WinXP command
line and the Perl program to make a single output file of [Father, Mother]
from *.html input. Sample input:

1.html

Person=George
Father=Alan
Mother=Sarah
Hobby=Cheating at dice

2.html

Person=Karen
Father=David
Mother=Mary
Hobby=Burning books

3.html

Person=Mark
Father=Sven
Mother=Helga
Hobby=Burping

Output file:

Alan, Sarah
David, Mary
Sven, Helga


Thanks!

-- Mark


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