I have a similar problem to http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=647133 but can't get the \G solution to work. I have data coming in that has a variable number of data pairs, with pipe delimiting. It should be <name>foo</name><value>bar</value>

The current feed comes in as: 

<name>test</name><value>431|alpha|123|bravo|542|charlie|412</value>

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so I am transforming this via: 
perl -pe "do{s/(\<value\>.+?)\|(.+?)\|(.*?)(?=\<\/value\>)/$1\<\/value
+\>\<name\>$2\<\/name\>\<value\>$3/gi;} while /\|/;"

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which gives me the correct output of 
<name>test</name><value>431</value><name>alpha</name><value>123</value
+><name>bravo</name><value>542</value><name>charlie</name><value>412</
+value>

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When I try to recode using Oha's solution with \G, it seems to only process the line once 
perl -pe "s/(\<value\>|\G)(.+?)\|(.+?)\|(.*?)(?=\<\/value\>)/$1$2\<\/v
+alue\>\<name\>$3\<\/name\>\<value\>$4/g"

<name>test</name><value>431</value><name>alpha</name><value>123|bravo|
+542|charlie|412</value>

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What am I doing wrong here?

In reply to Recursive substitution difficulties by wx27

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