Hello All, First post so go easy on me. I'm getting back into Perl after not touching it for years so I am like a noob. This is what I need to do. I have text file A that three fields, for example IP address, MAC, hostname, and there about 200 of them, comma separated (I can change this to a csv or whatever if easier). I have about 200 XML documents that I need to search for tags and enter those three fields above into that section, save it, open the next document and enter the same three fields, save, repeat for all docs. Here is an example:

File A

hosta,1.1.1.1,00000C123456,
hostb,2.2.2.2,00000C123457,
hostc,3.3.3.3,00000C123458,
hostd,4.4.4.4,00000C123459,
etc...(about 200 items, will have more later)


File 1
.
<HOST_NAME></HOST_NAME>
        <HOST_IP></HOST_IP>
        <HOST_MAC></HOST_MAC>
.
.

File 2
.
<HOST_NAME></HOST_NAME>
        <HOST_IP></HOST_IP>
        <HOST_MAC></HOST_MAC>
.
.
File 3
.
<HOST_NAME></HOST_NAME>
        <HOST_IP></HOST_IP>
        <HOST_MAC></HOST_MAC>
.
.


After all the docs are done, they will look like this...

File 1
.
<HOST_NAME>hosta</HOST_NAME>
        <HOST_IP>,1.1.1.1</HOST_IP>
        <HOST_MAC>00000C123456</HOST_MAC>
.
.
File 2
.
<HOST_NAME>hostb</HOST_NAME>
        <HOST_IP>,2.2.2.2</HOST_IP>
        <HOST_MAC>00000C123457</HOST_MAC>
.
.
etc.
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I have portable strawberry Perl right now on my work computer. If it would be easier to do it in ActivePerl or in Strawberry Perl installed version, let me know and I can spin it up on another workstation. So what is the best way to do this? Thanks for any help!

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