I'd like to second Rosie's implicit point, learn to wield Perl. It
will really accelerate your progress when dealing with text.
As a nice intro, Rosie's YAPC talk on natural language processing and
perl is as good a starting place as any:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~rosie/yapc/
S.
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