Hi everyone. I'm fairly new to perl and programming in general, and I don't understand how to do the following. If you would be kind enough to explain it to me, I would be really grateful.

I searched around the forum but I didn't find it, so if you could point to some analogous thread it will be fine.

Basically I have a text input like the following:

<a>
word1
word2
word3
</a>
<a>
word4
word5
</a>
<a>
word6
word7
</a>
[download]

What I would like to do, is to read the file, but analyze any different <a></a> block apart from the other. Basically, I have to perform some kind of analysis on

<a>
word1
word2
word3
</a>
[download]

and then do the very same analysis on

<a>
word4
word5
</a>
[download]

and

<a>
word6
word7
</a>
[download]

I have absolutely no clue on how to do it, I confess. So any kind of help (readings, suggestions, any other topics referring to similar problems) would be really appreciated.

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