On 10-11-13 01:42 PM, Zachary Brooks wrote:
1. My first approach was to use substitute to get rid of a range of things
between<DOC>  and</DATELINE>. A short version looks like this.

$hello = "<DOC>  man at the bar order the</DATELINE>";
$hello =~ s/<DOC>.*<\/DATELINE>//gi;
print "$hello\n";

I was about to say that you should use a module to parse your files but from what little you posted, it does not look like it's XML or even SGML. Do you know what format your data is in?


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