Your post makes me dizzy. Can you provide a solution for that first?

Where did you get this code?

open(B, ">A.xml") or die("Sorry!");

I'm sorry too. Rather than apologize, why not spit out a meaningful and useful message, or at least print the contents of $!

Next let's look at this: 

 $_=~s/\s\s//gi;
    $_=~s/\t//gi;
    $_=~s/^\n$//gi;
    $_=~s/\n//gi;

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Could you explain why it's a good idea to use case-insensitivity when you're matching whitespace, tabs, and newlines? (Hint: It isn't, and you shouldn't indiscriminately do so.)

After that I just lost interest. But I can say that you should parse XML with an XML parser, not regexps. You'll have a better success rate with less brain cramps if you do. Have a look at XML::Simple, or XML::Twig for starters.

And for heaven's sake, for projects starting in 2011 use lexical filehandles, and three-arg version of open.


Dave

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