Your split is going to return more than you expect. There will be 4 values returned by the split of your first line:

0 ''
1 project_id
2 12345
3 /project_id

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Try:

($xmltag, $xmlvalue) = (split /\<|\>/, $string)[1,2];

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The parentheses tell perl to treat the returned values from split as an array, and the subscripts pick out the elements you are specifically looking for.

I do the same thing in several of my programs using the following:

($tag,$value) = ($inline =~ /<(\/?\w+?)>([^<]*)/);

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I'm using a regex to handle 3 cases I see in my input:

<tag>value</tag> or
<tag> or
</tag>

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I can supply the details on how this works, but you might find it informative to try to figure out how it works yourself.

In reply to Re: Parsing an file that has xml like syntax by GotToBTru
in thread Parsing an file that has xml like syntax by Anonymous Monk

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