Hi Monks!
I have XML files in a directory and I am trying to make things very simple by just opening these files and check the existence of the first and last element - <order> and </order> , to make sure I don't get any bad XML in my other Perl code, and eventually delete the bad formatted XML file(s), but having problems trying to match it in my regular expression, can anyone help me with that?

my $xml_dir = "c://apache//htdocs//xml";

opendir(DIR, $xml_dir);

my @files = grep { /\.xml$/ } readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

foreach my $file (@files) {

if($file =~/<order>(.*)<\/order>/g){
                        print "FILE::: $file\n";
} 

}

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XML Sample File 1:
<order>
 <customer>
  <name>Coyote, Ltd.</name>
  <shipping_info>
    <address>1313 Desert Road</address>
    <city>Nowheresville</city>
    <state>AZ</state>
    <zip>90210</zip>
  </shipping_info>
 </customer>
 <item>
  <product id="1111">Acme Rocket Jet Pack</product>
  <quantity type="each">1</quantity>
 </item>
 <item>
  <product id="2222">Roadrunner Chow</product>
  <quantity type="bag">10</quantity>
 </item>
 </order>

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XML Sample File 2 - This file is not valid:
<order>
 <customer>
  <name>Coyote, Ltd.</name>
  <shipping_info>
    <address>1313 Desert Road</address>
    <city>Nowheresville</city>
    <state>AZ</state>
    <zip>90210</zip>
  </shipping_info>
 </customer>
 <item>
  <product id="1111">Acme Rocket Jet Pack</product>
  <quantity type="each">1</quantity>
 </item>
 <item>
  <product id="2222">Roadrunner Chow</product>
  <quantity type="bag">10</quantity>
 </item>

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Thanks!!!

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