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Your example doesn't even contain an open tag for <content>?


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Re^2: trouble with regular expressions, dont know why patters aren't matching
by downer (Monk) on Apr 01, 2008 at 00:41 UTC
    that was a mistake copying, sorry. this is the actual data, i had another line in the code which printed it out. I spoke to the admin, got me some root privileges, and installed XML::Simple. at that point, solving the problem and getting the data was, well, simple! thanks!