What language should I use to write a text parser and display the results in a user friendly manner? [closed]

Answer 1

I'd suggest Perl. It was practically built for parsing log files. As for output I agree with ghostdog74, HTML is the way to go. Perl has dozens of modules that allow you to build and/or template HTML.

I'd parse out the data using regular expressions, then use Template::Toolkit (on CPAN) to create nice pages using HTML and CSS templates.