This is the function that I have. It is not working for some reason. Do you know why? 
sub getItemsFromFile
{
    local $/=undef;
    open IN_FILE, "< /tmp/.rss_download_file";
    my $file_in = <IN_FILE>;
    close (IN_FILE);
       #$file_in="<item>headline1</item><item>headline2</item>";

    my @allItems=();
    #while ($file_in =~ m{<\s*item\s*>(.*?)</\s*item\s*>}g)
    while ($file_in =~ m{<item>(.*?)</item>}g)
    {
            push (@allItems, $1);
            print "$1\n";;
    }
    return @allItems;
}

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$file_in prints perfectly. It is there. This is UTF-8 character based file and it has foreign characters. If I uncomment the '#$file_in' line it works. Do u know why? The file is 33k bytes. Is it because I have '\n' In the file?

In reply to Re^2: Parsing with RegEx into Array by mr_p
in thread Parsing with RegEx into Array by mr_p

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