Hi all,

I am new to perl, i am in need of a search and replace to be happen between two files, ie., search has to be happen in a file let it be, a.txt and replace to be happened in another file b.txt

For Example

In a.txt, file structure will be as follows
<author>
<afiil>
etc...

In b.txt, file structure will be as follows
<author>This is the sample author </author><afiil> This is the sample affiliation</afiil>

Now my replace should be happen like, perl has find the <author> from a.txt and that has to replace in a newline in b.txt same way <afiil> has to be replaced.

and one more question, please

i want to delete text between the tag <! ... >

Similarly between &! ... ;

How can i check the open tag and close tag, there may be many closing tag similarly semicolon will come in the between the open tag(<! or &!) and close tag (> or ;).

Regards,

srprabu

In reply to Search and Replace for XML by srprabu

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