What about some good old plain logic?

What I read is that you want to associate the very next occurrence of coordinates, and the next occurrence only, with the last occurring name. Then:

$coords_found_flag = 0;
open(KMLFILE, $kml_file) or die("cannot open file : $kml_file $! ");
while ($line = <KMLFILE>) {
    if ($line =~ m/<name>(.*)<\/name>/) {
        $current_name = $1;
        $coords_found_flag = 0;
    }
    elsif ($line =~ m/<coordinates>(.*)<\/coordinates>/ && $coords_fou
+nd_flag == 0) {
        $coords{$current_name} = $1;
        $coords_found_flag = 1;
    }
}
close(KMLFILE);
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In reply to Re: RegEx Riddle by punch_card_don
in thread RegEx Riddle by ferddle

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