title: What's the best tool to parse log files?
body: <p>I use grep to parse through my trading apps logs, but it's limited in the sense that I need to visually trawl through the output to see what happened etc.</p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering if Perl is a better option? Any good resources to learn log and string parsing with Perl?</p>
  
  <p>I'd also believe that Python would be good for this. Perl vs Python vs 'grep on linux'?</p>