I am new to scripting..I found a text parsing script which works fine but I
am trying to modify it to do the following..can someone point me to a link /
help me get started.

I am trying to parse a log file but want that following be set in a config
file (XML Format)
* The string I want to find
* The strings i want to exclude
* the name of the log files
* the directory of the log files
* email address where i could forward the found string enteries.

The reason I want to use a config is that we could reuse the same Script for
multiple log scraping.