Re^2: getting parts of the strings from a file into managable variables

Hi, thanks a lot for response, it is working great. What do i need to change if i have spaces before strings, and number of spaces is not constant? Thanks again :) Aida

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Re^3: getting parts of the strings from a file into managable variables by Eimi Metamorphoumai (Deacon) on Nov 12, 2004 at 18:26 UTC
Hmmm, you might try changing the regexp to something like `my ($key, $value) = m{^\s<([^>]+)>\s(.*)<}i;` [download] Although I'm starting to agree with the others that a real XML parser might be the way to go.	[reply] [d/l]


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