Hello Monks

My Input is

<level1 id="L1_0001"> <level2> <level3> <level4> <level3> <level4> <level2> <level2> <level1 id="L1_0002"> <level1 id="L1_0003"> <level2> <level3>

I need id for level2 is id of immediate above level1's

<level1 id="L1_0001"> <level2 id="L1_0001"> <level3> <level4> <level3> <level4> <level2 id="L1_0001"> <level2 id="L1_0001"> <level1 id="L1_0002"> <level1 id="L1_0003"> <level2 id="L1_0003"> <level3>

I tried the following

$content =~s#(<level1 id=\"([^"]*)\"(?:(?!<level1).)*?)<level2>#$1<lev +el2 id="$2">#gsi;

I got (didn't get for every level2)

<level1 id="L1_0001"> <level2 id="L1_0001"> <level3> <level4> <level3> <level4> <level2> <level2> <level1 id="L1_0002"> <level1 id="L1_0003"> <level2 id="L1_0003"> <level3>

Pls help me to add id for missing level2

Thanks

Siva

2006-09-14 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines

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Original title: 'Regex problem'


In reply to Regex problem while parsing tagged, hierarchical data by sivaramanm

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