This got me thinking... I often create xml but always with the first tag being different for each .. well where the tag <row> exists here I normally only need 

<row>a</row>
<row2>b</row2>

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So here is my stab at doing this with XML::Simple. Please comment on how I can refine this... but I do know it outputs what was asked for... ;-D

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my (%h);

my $xs = XML::Simple->new(    keeproot => 1,
                                    noattr => 1,
                               noescape => 1);

open (FILE, ">>./Test.xml") or die "Cannot create Test.xml: $!\n";

while (<DATA>) {
    delete $h{row};
    my $count = 0;
    chomp;
    my @line = split(/;/);
    foreach my $var (@line) {
        $count++;
        my $tag = "col" . $count;
        $h{'row'}{$tag} = $var;
    }
    print Dumper(\%h);
    print FILE $xs->XMLout(\%h);
}
 
close(FILE); 

__DATA__
a;b;c;d;e
f;g;h
i;
j

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In reply to Re: newbie regex question: substituting repeating occurences for different replacements by AcidHawk
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