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Given that the input data was originally XML parsed with XML::Simple, if you're going to use a format like depTar/name for the user input, you can use XML::XPath to extract the results:

use XML::XPath;
use XML::XPath::XMLParser;

my $usr_string = "depTar/name";
my $xml = "<depTar><name>c_p20</name><loc>srvr1</loc></depTar>";

my $xp = XML::XPath->new(xml => $xml);
my $nodeset = $xp->find($usr_string);

foreach my $node ($nodeset->get_nodelist) {
        print $node->string_value(), "\n";
}
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In reply to Re^2: "Dynamically" Accessing a HoH by dave0
in thread "Dynamically" Accessing a HoH by Nitrox

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