N. Ganesh Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > <lt=c24>PRL IJB PRL CHA <refauth><fname>K.</fname> > <middlename>M.</middlename> [...]
I'm having a bad case of deja vu with this... > How to backtrack the below pairs of information from the above line. > the number of pairs/line may chage from a range of 1 to 5 I'd say parsing with XML::Parser could help you getting the data into a manageable shape, although I'd suggest you fix the markup first: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use XML::Parser; use Data::Dumper; my $xml = '<bibliography chapter="24"><publication short="PRL" title="Phys. Rev. Lett." volume="71" pages="65" year="1993"><author fname="K." middle="M." surname="Cuomo" /><author fname="A." middle="V." surname="Oppenheim" /></publication></bibliography>'; my $p = new XML::Parser(Style => 'Tree'); print Dumper $p->parse($xml); __END__ HTH, Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
