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Regexp to parse XML input returned

ralperl
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Aug 14, 2011, 9:42 AM

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Regexp to parse XML input returned	Can't Post

HI,

Am fairly new to using regexp - and am trying to capture and parse some input from XML received in simialr format to following

<Service>YldCurves</Service>
<Host>lnqds1a</Host>
<Admin>21521</Admin>

I want to only extract the actual value for both HOst and Port - ignoring the tags - have tried various options using regexp most basic being m/Host(.*?)Host/

Is this approach possible? Or woudl I be better outputting to a file - then using other options to capture value such as grep etc?

Any feedback much appreciated

Thanks,

Ral

FishMonger
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Aug 14, 2011, 10:11 AM

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Re: [ralperl] Regexp to parse XML input returned [In reply to]	Can't Post

Use one of Perl's XML parsers, such as:

XML::Simple http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-Simple-2.18/lib/XML/Simple.pm
or
XML::Parser http://search.cpan.org/~toddr/XML-Parser-2.41/Parser.pm
or
XML::Twig http://search.cpan.org/~mirod/XML-Twig-3.38/Twig.pm

A more complete list can be found here. http://search.cpan.org/search?query=XML&mode=all

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