Hi usemodperl,

First of all I want to say thanks so much for this tutorial type solution!

After changing the following line from

# PUT my BEFORE ALL VARIABLES TO PREVENT TYPOS LATER ON:

my @data = <DATA>;

to:

my @data = <FILE>;

here are my results after parsing the actual file:

results:

UNKNOWN: 
UNKNOWN: 
UNKNOWN:        
UNKNOWN:                
UNKNOWN:                        
UNKNOWN:                                ServerName
UNKNOWN:                                10.10.10.11
UNKNOWN:                                bfRootServer (0)
OS:                             Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server 6.9 (2
+.6.32-696.23.1.el6.x86_64)
UNKNOWN:                                Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:26:53 -050
+0
UNKNOWN:                                9.2.1.48
UNKNOWN:                                SUpportGroup1
UNKNOWN:                        
UNKNOWN:                
UNKNOWN:                
UNKNOWN:                        34.402ms
UNKNOWN:                        Plural
UNKNOWN:                
UNKNOWN:        
UNKNOWN:
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contents of the source text/xml file excluding the actual infrastrucure names:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<BESAPI xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNa
+mespaceSchemaLocation="BESAPI.xsd">
        <Query Resource="(names of it, ip addresses of it, root server
+ of it, operating systems of it, last report time of it, agent versio
+ns of it, values of results from (BES Property &quot;_SupportGroup&qu
+ot;) of it) of bes computers whose ( name of it as lowercase starts w
+ith &quot;ServerName&quot;)">
                <Result>
                        <Tuple>
                                <Answer type="string">ServerName</Answ
+er>
                                <Answer type="string">10.10.10.1`</Ans
+wer>
                                <Answer type="string">bfRootServer (0)
+</Answer>
                                <Answer type="string">Linux Red Hat En
+terprise Server 6.9 (2.6.32-696.23.1.el6.x86_64)</Answer>
                                <Answer type="time">Fri, 22 Jun 2018 1
+0:26:53 -0500</Answer>
                                <Answer type="string">9.2.1.48</Answer
+>
                                <Answer type="string">SupportGroup1</A
+nswer>
                        </Tuple>
                </Result>
                <Evaluation>
                        <Time>34.402ms</Time>
                        <Plurality>Plural</Plurality>
                </Evaluation>
        </Query>
</BESAPI>
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So to summarize what my desired output after parsing the file is:

Computer: ServerName
IP Address: 10.10.10.11
Root Server: bfRootServer
OS: Windows Server 2012
Last Report Time: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:26:53 -0500
BES Agent Version: 9.2.1.48
Support Group: SupportGroup1
[download]

Thanks again!

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