Writing scripts to edit or parse txt file How To?

Not sure if this is the correct forum for programming type question. If not someone point me in the right direction?
I'm a programming student and I'd like to teach myself some scripting skills over the summer break.
In particular, I've got a txt file I'd like to split into three txt files. A google calendar file that I'd like to divide into three separate calendars.
I know what strings I want to put where. My problem is what scripting language am I trying to use? Applescript? Something else?
Any suggestions or ideas? Recommendations on reading materials or sample scripts I should look at?
Thanks for the help.

Perl is a huge programming language. A more expedient project would be to learn some basic shell commands such as sed, awk, tr and cut. The sed command is optimized for linewise operations, awk is optimized for columnwise operations and tr is a basic character translation tool especially useful when feeding Mac files into a UNIX command.
Setting up sed and awk commands to read and write files is a big part of learning, especially since shell commands cannot normally write to a file in situ.
Applescript is not ideal for text manipulation as it is slow, uses a bulky delimiter system and has irritating file access limitations. However it can be a powerful interface for the above mention shell commands. Applescript offers an ideal way to assemble shell commands with user-input variables. Of course, shell commands cannot be interactive with Applescript, so you learn to do incremental operations on text files.
Another handy use for Applescript is to send your command to Terminal, which makes an ideal output display.

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import java.util.*;
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Hi all,
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Regards,
Lisa.

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report zrich_0003 .
data: begin of listout occurs 0,
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form retrieve_list_from_memory tables reportlines.
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data: txtlines(1024) type c occurs 0 with header line.
clear list. refresh list.
clear reportlines. refresh reportlines.
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            not_found = 1
            others     = 2.
check sy-subrc = 0.
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            listasci           = txtlines
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            empty_list         = 1
            list_index_invalid = 2
            others             = 3.
check sy-subrc = 0.
reportlines[] = txtlines[].
call function 'LIST_FREE_MEMORY'.
endform.
Regards,
Rich Heilman

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Please look at the technote:
http://access1.sun.com/technotes/01185.html
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