Hi,

Thanks for your kind welcome!

Let me try to circumscribe what you told me so that I understand it correctly. I would put my regexes in an array, e.g.

my @regexes = (§\s*[0-9], Art\.\s*[0-9IVX, ...)

Is this what you meant?

Then how do I read "a data file into a scalar as a string"? Is it just my $file = 'fname.xml'?

Normally I use a file handle like this 

my $infile = $ARGV[0];
open(IN, '<' . $infile) or die $!;

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Which kind of loop construct do you think of?

With regard to the ISO entities, &sect; which stands for the "§" symbol is an example what I meant.

In reply to Re^2: Entity statistics by LexPl
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