Hi everyone. I'm fairly new to perl and programming in general, and I don't understand how to do the following. If you would be kind enough to explain it to me, I would be really grateful.

I searched around the forum but I didn't find it, so if you could point to some analogous thread it will be fine.

Basically I have a text input like the following: 

<a>
word1
word2
word3
</a>
<a>
word4
word5
</a>
<a>
word6
word7
</a>

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What I would like to do, is to read the file, but analyze any different <a></a> block apart from the other. Basically, I have to perform some kind of analysis on 

<a>
word1
word2
word3
</a>

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and then do the very same analysis on 
<a>
word4
word5
</a>

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and
<a>
word6
word7
</a>

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I have absolutely no clue on how to do it, I confess. So any kind of help (readings, suggestions, any other topics referring to similar problems) would be really appreciated.

In reply to Repeating the same command in different portions of input by albascura

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