Hi, monks i want to remove last index heading empty tags and also the corresponding index entry tag.

I use this code for my file i am getting error, printing output only closing </index> 

undef $/;
open(IN, "d:\\xyz.txt")    ||    die "Cannot Open file\n";
$str = <IN>;
$str =~ s#<index-entry id=".*?"><index-heading></index-heading>\n</ind
+ex-entry>##gsi;
print $str;


Input :
<index-entry id="idx-12427">
<index-heading>Zone of proximal development</index-heading><intra-ref 
+refid="00067.p0040" locator-type="pii" locator="B0126574103000672"><b
+>3</b>47</intra-ref>
<index-entry id="idx-12428"><index-heading>definition</index-heading><
+intra-ref refid="00067.g0040" locator-type="pii" locator="B0126574103
+000672"><b>3</b>45</intra-ref>
</index-entry>
</index-entry>
<index-entry id="idx-12429"><index-heading></index-heading>
</index-entry>
</index>

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Thanks in advance.
Gubendran

In reply to Pattern Matching by gube

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