A regex capture, as shown by NetWallah and poj, is the easiest solution with your data.

Let me, however, continue with my earlier idea and show how split could be used in such a case. The following is a demonstration under the Perl debugger: 

  DB<1> $string = '<Answer type="string">ServerName.FD.net.org</Answer
+>';

  DB<2> @fields = split /[<>]/, $string;

  DB<3> x @fields;      # displaying the content of the @fields array 
+after the split
0  ''
1  'Answer type="string"'
2  'ServerName.FD.net.org'
3  '/Answer'
  DB<4> print $fields[2];   # outputting the server name
ServerName.FD.net.org

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You could also retrieve directly the server name without using a temporary array: 
  DB<1> $string = '<Answer type="string">ServerName.FD.net.org</Answer
+>';

  DB<2> $name = (split /[<>]/, $string)[2];

  DB<3> print $name;
ServerName.FD.net.org

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But, again, a regex capture is simpler with your data format.

In reply to Re^3: Print word from text file that is not an exact match by Laurent_R
in thread Print word from text file that is not an exact match by TonyNY

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