I am trying to make an HTML file out of an RSS file. The RSS file contains items of the type: 
<item>
<title>Davies promises 2004 best year</title>
<link>http://www.worldpress.org/feed.cfmhttp://www.jamaica-gleaner.com
+:80/gleaner/20040326/lead/lead1.html</link>
<description>Jamaica Gleaner, Centrist daily of Kingston,
Jamaica</description>
</item>

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As you can see, I need to extract the Headline (<title></title>), the URL (<link></link>) and the description (<description></description>) from each such item group. The following piece of code does not work. Could you please direct me as to how to extract the above 3 items properly? The program dos not read any of the items in this fashion. 
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while($maryb=~
/<title>(.*?)<\/title><link>(.*?)<\/link><description>(.*?)<\/descript
+ion>/)
{
$headline=$1;
$url=$2;
$desc=$3;

  print FILE <<"UP_TO_HERE";
 <title>$headline</title>
 <a href=\"$url\">
 $headline</a><br>
 <font size=\"-1\"><b>$desc</b></font><br><br>

UP_TO_HERE
}
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Thanks a million!

maryb

Edit by tye, add CODE and P tags

Edit2 by Chady -- retitled from 'A Very Simple Question'

In reply to Converting RSS file to HTML by hermes

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


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