My bad . . . I'l rephrase my question. . . . Lets say there is a file - trial.pl and that has the following code snippet in it 
<binddn>cn=abcde</binddn>
<bindpass>welcome1</bindpass>

<binddn>cn=abcde</binddn>
<bindpass>welcome1</bindpass>

<binddn>cn=xyzzz</binddn>
<bindpass>welcome1</bindpass>

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Now id like to create another perl file, called replace.pl which will replace the value of <bindpass> from 'welcome1' to 'welcome123' in all cases where the previous line is '<binddn>cn=xyzzz</binddn>' Thanks !

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