They do not have XML::Parser. There not planning on putting it on there at this time, however, they want me to manipulate these incoming XML files. The incoming XML file only have 2 pieces of information in it, and they could just send a normal file, but noooo, they want to use XML so they can say they use XML. Bah. Thanks for your advice everybody, I appreciate it. If I had know ahead of time they weren't going to give me the tools I need to do the job they mandated correctly, I wouldn't have bothered you. so I get to do this instead: 
@ar = `tail -2 "$ack_filename"`;
print $ar[0];
$file_size = substr($ar[0],13,-13);

print $file_size;

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hope there file format doesn't change. oh, and I can't put it in my space because we all use the same logon and password. yes you read correctly. I've been trying to get them to change that for almost a year, but they have more important things to do. Like work on there golf game. fortuanatly, my year here will be up at the end of july, and I can flee.

In reply to Re: (FoxUni) Re(3): XML parsing by geekoid
in thread XML parsing by Anonymous Monk

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