Hi, I am very new to perl and i would be very thankful for all help you can give me. I am trying to make a program that will extract info from a file and them do some statistic analysis with it. I need for every UserID to get all the variables. As you can see they are distributed throughout the file. Any suggestions on how should i approach this? File is in following format: <UserID>46786<UserID>
<start>2004-10-21TO09:57:25Z</start>
<dev>Some Text</dev>
<var1>some string</var1>
<var2>some string</var2>
<USerID>57864</UserID>
<start>2004-10-25TO09:57:25Z</start>
<dev>Some Text</dev>
<var1>some string</var1>
<UserID>46786<UserID>
<var3>some string</var3>
<var4>some string</var4>
<UserID>98766</UserID>
<start>2004-10-21TO09:57:25Z</start>
<dev>Some Text</dev>
<var1>some string</var1>
<var2>some string</var2>
<var5>some string</var5>
<var6>some string</var6>
<USerID>57864</UserID>
<var4>some string</var4>
<var6>some string</var6>

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