Hi ferddle,
You can use negative look ahead regex to accomplish your job. If you have whole file in a string $kml, then
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
my $kml = do { local $/, <DATA>};
my %hash;
while ($kml =~ m/<name>((?:(?!<name>).)*)<\/name>\s*(<coordinates>(?:(
+?:(?!<coordinates>).)*)<\/coordinates>)/gs){
$hash{$1} = $2;
}
print Dumper \%hash;
output:
-------
$VAR1 = {
'One more' => '<coordinates>56,78,0</coordinates>',
'This is the title' => '<coordinates>12,34,0</coordinates>'
};
You can learn more about positive look ahead at perlre.
updated, added code. Thanks to ikegami for pointing out the mistake.