Few days a go, I asked about reading the content of a xml tag without the use of XML::Parser, and other modules. Today while fumbling around I wrote a code on how to read the content of specific tags and I thought I should share it.

open(DBASE, $path."database.txt") || die ("File does not exist, $!\n")
+;
while(<DBASE>)
{
   chomp;
   print (LIST "\nTIME: ".localtime(time)."\n");
   print (LIST "$_\n\n");
   open (XFILE, $_) || die ("Can\'t open[$_], $!\n");
   while(<XFILE>)
   {
    chomp;
    if($_ =~ /\<name\>/../\<\/name\>/)
    {
       print (LIST "$_\n");
    }
    elsif($_ =~ /\<keywords\>/../\<\/keywords\>/)
    {
       print (LIST "$_\n");
    }
    elsif($_ =~ /\<description\>/../\<\/description\>/)
    {
       print (LIST "$_\n");
    }
    elsif($_ =~ /\<results\>/../\<\/results\>/)
    {
      print (LIST "$_\n");
    }
    }close XFILE;
} close LIST;
close DBASE;
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The above code is working find but if any monks could help me make it smarter, I will really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Edman