I was given a job to manipulate MIF files and decided to do the job in PERL for it's powerful text manipulating capabilites. A MIF file is another method to represent a FrameMaker file which contains all these tags similar to html.

What I need to do (and this is where I need help) is to delete any strike-through text in the file. Looking at the MIF file at hand, I noticed what tags I have to remove.

For example, here are the MIF tags that represents something that is strike-through. 

  <ParaLine
   <Font
    <FTag `'>
    <FStrike Yes>
    <FChangeBar Yes>
    <FLocked No>
   > # end of Font
   <String `There are at least two indications that the MM can re'>

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If you look at the MIF file in FrameMaker, there will be this string strike through:

"There are at least two indications that the MM can re"

If I delete the strike-throught text by hand in FrameMaker, the MIF representation would be 

  <ParaLine
   <Font
    <FTag `'>
    <FChangeBar Yes>
    <FLocked No>
   > # end of Font

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Note that the above to MIF codes are the same part of the file where text appeared when strike-through and after when it was deleted.

Okay my problem is how do I code the steps to delete any strike-through text. I've a good understand of condtions, functions, regular expressions and such.

What I need to do is if the conditon CODE1 expample is found to delete all the tags that I did in CODE2. So is it legal to declare a varibales such as 

my($font) =<<EOFONT;
<Paraline                                        
<Font
 <FTag `'>
 <FStrik Yes>
 <FChangeBar Yes>
 <FLocked No>
> # end of Font
<String 'There are at least two indications that the MM can re'>
EOFONT

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And I'm stuck after that. So I would apprecitiate if someone could lead me a helping hand to help me solve the problem. And I apologies for my rambling and lack of English skills.

THANKS !!!

In reply to How to approach this? by Anonymous Monk

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