Hi ferddle,

You can use negative look ahead regex to accomplish your job. If you have whole file in a string $kml, then

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $kml = do { local $/, <DATA>};

my %hash;

while ($kml =~ m/<name>((?:(?!<name>).)*)<\/name>\s*(<coordinates>(?:(
+?:(?!<coordinates>).)*)<\/coordinates>)/gs){

$hash{$1} = $2;

}

print Dumper \%hash;

output:
-------
$VAR1 = {
          'One more' => '<coordinates>56,78,0</coordinates>',
          'This is the title' => '<coordinates>12,34,0</coordinates>'
        };

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You can learn more about positive look ahead at perlre.

updated, added code. Thanks to ikegami for pointing out the mistake.

Prasad

In reply to Re: RegEx Riddle by prasadbabu
in thread RegEx Riddle by ferddle

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