On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 08:17 -0800, Paul M wrote: > If it were true XML, I would say all children's Node Names. > so: > <elema> <elemb> <elemc> >
You mean all the descendants. The children of elem1 are elema and elemb. The descendants of elem1 are elema, elemb, and elemc. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $line = "<elem1><elema></elema><elemb><elemc></elemc></elemb></elem1>"; my @insides = $line =~ m{ \<elem1\> (.*?) \<\/elem1\> }gmsx; for my $inside ( @insides ){ while( $inside =~ m{ \G \<([^>]*)\> }gmsx ){ my $element = $1; unless( $element =~ m{ \A \/ }msx ){ print "$1\n"; } } } -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/