Hi there,
I want to find in a xml file a group of specific strings.
For example I want to find all people which are 43 years
old (following tags):
<name>John Doe</name>
<age>43</age>
But I don't know ow to do it right.
my code so far:

$pattern1 = "<name>.*</name>";
$pattern2 = "<age>43</age>";
$file = "data.xml";
$sep = "\n";
open(IN,"<$file");
chomp(@content=<IN>);
close IN;
$list = join ($sep,@content);
if ($list =~ m/$pattern1$sep$pattern2/gi){
print "\n::$&::\n";
print "\n::$1::\n";
print "\n::$2::\n";
}

I found only one entry but there are more.
Perhaps the join function is not the right in my case, but
I didn't know how to look up in an array in my special
case, because the two tags are in the array two elements.
Please help me.
thanks in advance
cybär

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