Hi, I am still pretty bad at regular expressions and could use some help parsing out an XML file using regular expressions (though if there are other ways of getting data from the XML file, I am all ears; though I would prefer not to install a new perl module in doing so). I have an XML file that look something like this: <more> 
<EVENT>
 <NAME>test2</NAME>
 <LOCATION>iwu</LOCATION>
 <TIME>now</TIME>
 <DATE>today</DATE>
 <PRIORITY>interest</PRIORITY>
 <ATTENDEES>a lot</ATTENDEES>
 <DESCRIPTION> descrip</DESCRIPTION>
</EVENT>
<EVENT>
 <NAME>test3</NAME>
 <LOCATION>hi</LOCATION>
 <TIME>joe</TIME>
 <DATE>how</DATE>
 <PRIORITY>interest</PRIORITY>
 <ATTENDEES>are</ATTENDEES>
 <DESCRIPTION> </DESCRIPTION>
</EVENT>

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I would like to count how many events are in the file and store the information about each event into a two dimensional array (or something like that). Here are my thoughts. This regex 
$variable =~ s/<EVENT>.*?<\/EVENT>//gi;

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,from what I understand, will place the place the text between the EVENT tags into a variable. However, I'm not sure what will happen if I have more than one set of EVENT tags such as in the XML above. I would like to isolate each event (and I want to have an indefinite number of events) into a separate array element. Then I can begin splitting up the data for each event into variables somehow. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this. I would be very grateful for any help that you could offer me. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Joe Added: Forgive me, the above regex should look something more like this 
if ($page_body =~ /.*?<EVENT>(.*?)<\/EVENT>.*?/)
      { $variable = $1; }

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