Thanks graff

I'm not sure I follow your suggestion fully though.

As I said, I'm trying to pre-check some XML before I let XML::Parser do its magic. 

my $parser = XML::Parser->new(
    Handlers => {
        Start => \&s_start,
        End   => \&s_end,
        Final => \&s_final,
    }
);

my %device_info = $parser->parse($fh);

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It's the call to parse with a parameter of $fh that I'm not sure how to change. I need to peek inside $fh beforehand and set up different parser handler routines, depending on what I see. If I sneak a look before calling the parser, the first few lines of XML are lost and it dies with a malformed error, which is fair enough.

So, I need to remember the first 5 or so lines (no problem) and then somehow insert these in the front of the file that parse is going to read? But I don't understand how ...

Thanks

In reply to Re^2: Can I seek in a command's piped output? by wardy3
in thread Can I seek in a command's piped output? by wardy3

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