Re: replacing continuesly occuring pattern

Something like this ought to do the trick:

$xml =~ s/<(.*?)name>/<$1names>/g;
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[id://CountZero] is right, I misread the original question. I thought the OP simply wanted to replace the "name" tags with "names." Oops.

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Re^2: replacing continuesly occuring pattern by CountZero (Bishop) on Apr 16, 2005 at 09:43 UTC
Are you sure that works? When I tried it I get as a result: `<names>abc</names><names>def</names>` which is not what was requested. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply] [d/l]