#/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $timeLimit = ''; $timeLimit =~ m/startTime="(.*?)"/g; my $startTime = $1; chomp($timeLimit); my $endTime =''; if ($timeLimit =~ m/endTime/) { $timeLimit =~ m/endTime="(.*?)"/; $endTime = $1; } print "[$startTime],[$endTime]\n";