I am chopping up a collection of xml records into separate files, and everything is tickety-poo EXCEPT that the field for the registration date gets skipped. I am running ActivePerl 5.8.8 build 822. The code looks like this: 
open (BOX, "<", "U:/documents/mpcrequeststack.txt");

my $can = '';

my $case = '';

while ($can = <BOX>) {
    $can = <BOX>;
    $case .= $can;
    if ($can =~ /^<\/ACCESS_REQUEST>/) {

        my (@stamp) = gettimeofday();
        my $stamp = join '.', @stamp;
        open CLIP, ">", "\\\\server\\share\\dbgroom\\$stamp.xml" or di
+e $!;
        print "$case\n";
        close CLIP;
        $case = '';
    }
}

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The source file has one field per line. The <REGISTRATION_DATE> fields look like ' Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 16:11:53 (CDT) '. It is not missing from any of the records. What am I missing? UPDATE: Removed some lines of commented out code.

In reply to I can't believe this string is that weird by girarde

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