Perl script suggestions for practice?

[Protoman]

I'm an amateur Perl programmer (I recently finished "Perl 5 for dummies") and I've been searching for ideas on what to script. I already have written (at my father's suggestion) a program for extracting the unique words from a text file but that isn't enough for practice.

Does anyone have any ideas on what kind of program I should create next (novice level please)? I really can't think of anything at all and I really need the practice.

Thanks to anyone who can contribute some ideas! :-)

[martinthurn]

Well, what is your purpose for learning Perl? What is your goal? Think of or choose some interesting problem related to your goal and start working on that?