This could be an option too. Thank you.
Excel ended up not working in this case because while it reads the file, it 
has a weird formatting too and I cannot work with it much better.
The formula posted above works much better for me and is what I was looking 
for.

El lunes, 24 de febrero de 2020, 12:12:16 (UTC-6), ThePorgie escribió:
>
> One other thing about a xml tool. The latest version of Mac Excel will now 
> open xml. Just an fyi if that would work to get the names you're looking 
> for.
>
>
>
> On Monday, February 24, 2020 at 11:44:36 AM UTC-5, Miguel Perez wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm fairly new to RegEx and I need your help.
>>
>> I process many XML files in my job. Most of them are formatted correctly, 
>> that is:
>> <key1>Value</key1>
>> <key2>Value</key2>
>>
>> For those I search for values using:
>>
>> <key1>.*?</key1>
>> And it works like a charm.
>>
>> But then I have this one source that formats its XML files with CDATA 
>> fields like this:
>> <field>
>>     <key><![CDATA[NAME]]></key>
>>     <value><![CDATA[John Appleseed]]></value>
>> </field>
>> In this example they are trying to say that the value *NAME* is *John 
>> Appleseed*. Rather than putting it as a key/value pair, they do that 
>> weird syntax.
>>
>> What GREP pattern can I use to extract all the names for this formatting?
>>
>> I am open to other solutions, like BASH scripts and Applescript. I'm 
>> desperate.
>>
>> Thank you for your help, friends.
>>
>> 🙂
>>
>

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