I have the following text in a file -

        <IfModule mod_limitipconn.c>
         <Location />
             MaxConnPerIP 12
             NoIPLimit image/*
         </Location>
         <Location /location2>
             MaxConnPerIP 0
         </Location>
         <Location /location3>
             MaxConnPerIP 0
         </Location>
        </IfModule>
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I am trying to open up the file, slurp the date, go into the Location block and based on a check on the location I would like to change the value of MaxConnPerIP. What I have so far is

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Tie::File;
use File::Copy;
my $f = 'ipconn.conf';
my $location = '/';   # Was an attempt to parameterize the location fi
+eld that way I can toggle through it once I have the below loop worki
+ng. 

tie my @filelines, 'Tie::File', "$f", autochomp => 0 or die $!;
foreach ( @filelines ) {
           if (!/^#/ && m/\<Location\s*(.+?)\<\/Location\>/ && /^\s*Ma
+xConnPerIP\s*/) {
              $_ = '#' . localtime . $_;
              $_ .= "\n\t\tMaxConnPerIP 10";
}
           else {
                print "in else";
           }
}

untie @filelines or die $!;
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I understand I have the regex wrong or also I might need to loop through the block to find the tesxt i wish to change an update it.That was based on the idea - http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=153498 So if I can get into the Location block store everything into a string and then search/replace the attribute value, then I could loop through this for each location i wish to edit. If I can search for a block of text using a regex then can I also not to a search-replace in the same regex itself. Also I not sure why but the match operator does work if I open the file using

open (FILE, "< ipconn.conf") or die $!;
my $file = <FILE>;
close FILE;
if ($file =~ m/\<Location\ \/.+?\<\/Location\>/s)
 print $&;
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Then I am able to get into the block. Would like to know what you guys think.

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