Advise: Programming Language to Learn

[Stephen]

I often need to do utility programs to, for example, extract email 
addresses from a text file.

I used to use OS/2 REXX and it was great and fast.

What would be a good choice to use on my Linux system?

I know Pascal well, C fair and PHP pretty well.

Thanks
Stephen
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