I am working on a file upload system that also parses the files that are uploaded and generates another file based on info inside the file uploaded. The files being uploaded as XML files. I only need to parse the first XML tag in each file and only need to get the value of the single attribute in the tag.
Sample XML:
<LAB title="lab title goes here">...</LAB> I am looking for a good way of extracting the value of the title attribute using the Perl split function or using Regex. I would use a Perl XML parser if I had the ability to install Perl modules on the server I am hosting my code on, however I do not have that ability.
This XML is located in an XML file, that I am opening and then attempting to parse out the attribute value. I have tried using both Split and Regex to no luck. However, I am not very familiar with Perl or regular expressions.
This is he basic outline my code so far:
open(LAB, "<", "path-to-file-goes-here") or die "Unable to open lab.\n"; foreach my $line (<LAB>) { my @pieces = split(/"(.*)"/, $line); foreach my $piece (@pieces) { print "$piece\n"; } } I have tried using split to match against title alone using
/title/ Or match against the = character or the " character using
/\=/ or /\"/ I have also tried doing similar things using regex and have had no luck as well. I am not sure if I am just not using the proper expression or if this is not possible using split/regex. Any help on the matter would be much appreciated, as I am admittedly a novice at Perl still. If this type of question has been answered elsewhere, I apologize. I did some searching and could not find a solution. Most threads suggest using an XML parsing Perl module, which I would if I had the privileges to install them.
