Hi Monks,

I am trying to collect a group of data from text file base on a couple of checks. Example: I have a text file that searched multiple xml file and extracted the following tags.

<MS_1>
  <loc>c:\data\cat.xml</loc>
  <words>dog, cat, fish, bird</words>
</MS_1>
<MS_2>
  <loc>c:\data\cow.xml</loc>
  <words>dog, cat, fish, bird, cow, goat</words>
</MS_2>
<MS_3>
  <loc>c:\data\snake.xml</loc>
  <words>dog, cat, fish, bird, snake, orange</words>
</MS_3>

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What I am trying to do is to prompt the user to enter the name of the animal to find. If the user enters snake for example, I want to return the entire content of <MS_3>..</MS_3> inculding the MS_ tags. I have tried the following code but I am getting nowhere. Could any monk kindly help me with this. 

print ("Enter the word to search >> ");
chomp ($word = <STDIN>);
my $listen = 0;
open(SEARCH, "<$kwords")
while (<SEARCH>)
{
  chomp;
  @array = ();
  foreach($_ =~ /\<MS_/){$listen++;}
  push (@array, $_) if /\<MS_$listen\>/../\<\/MS_$listen\>/;
  if ($_ =~ /$word/i)
  {
    print("@array[0..$#array]\n");
  }
}

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Thanks,

Edman

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