Update to search programs

Today I added email validation to four scripts that perform the notification of completion filing and emailing, and to the scripts that find the test results and the notification of completion submittals. The email blocks now have to have some form of valid email address entered or the program kicks back an error and informs users to enter a proper email address format. I had to do this to keep the search utility from listing the entire test score database when a non email word was entered. It took all day using Perl which I am beginning to respect more. In computer languages I would have to say that Perl is the ultimate text processing language. FORTRAN is known as one of the ultimate number crunchers, but FORTRAN is not the language of choice for text processing. So why am I saying this to you all.... Well, if you have kids tell them to learn Perl if they are into computers! Microsoft has VBScript and C#, but anytime Microsoft licenses a product you will pay through the nose for it, and MS will drop the product any time the market conditions determine it isn't a money maker, like they did FoxPro. I and others wasted many hours and dollars learning FoxPro and buying the developer products from Microsoft only to have them drop it entirely without notice.
Perl is a public domain language that can be downloaded and installed in your computer for free. It is an extremely powerful tool that grades tests and records test results among other things. As I recall, the founder of EBay was a Perl programmer.