Hi PerlMonks, I am a newbie in perl and I would like seek helpon how to parse multiple xml files from a directory using a single perl script. Ex. If I execute the "Perl Clean.pl" in the cmd. All xml files in the same directory will remove the unwanted tags, without affecting its filename or should I say it will retain its filename or its better if I also send it on another directory. Below is my code: Many Thanks! 

#!/xce/bin/perl -w

use warnings;

opendir(DIR, ".") or die "cannot open directory";
@docs = grep(/\.xml$/,readdir(DIR));
foreach $file (@docs) {
open (INFILE, "$file") or die "could not open $file\n";

# Process error data to rectify the error records in massaged data

while (<INFILE>) {

    while(/<p>\s*<text>([^\000]*?)<\/text>\s*<\/p>/){
    $temp=$1;
    
    $temp=~s/<p[^\000]*?\/>//gmi;
    $temp=~s/<br\/>//gmi;
    
    s/<p>\s*<text>[^\000]*?<\/text>\s*<\/p>/<P>\n<TEXT>$temp<\/TEXT>\n
+<\/P>/;
        }
    
    s/(<\/?)TEXT/$1text/gm;
    s/(<\/?)P/$1p/gm;
    
       print $_;                     # Output the contents of $_ to 
                                         # output file

    }                                   

#Close the infile.
close(INFILE);

}

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In reply to How to run multiple xml in a directory on a single perl script by Siegfried_13

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