[tpm] find, manipulate, then output

[James E Keenan]

On 5/28/12 9:59 AM, Antonio Sun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to work on the strings that I find in the input, then output the
> processed content.
> I'm wondering what's the elegant way to do it.
>
> IIRC, it can be done with something like this
>
> perl -ne 'print $2 . ", ". $1. "\n" while(/.../)'
>
> But I really can't work out the rest now.
> Please help.
>
> Here is an example that you can work on. Given the following input,
> I want to output, "<last-name>, <first-name>" on each line.
> I.e., the output would be:
>
> Franklin, Benjamin
> Melville, Herman
>
> Thanks
>
> <bookstore>
> <book genre="autobiography">
> <title>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</title>
> <author>
> <first-name>Benjamin</first-name>
> <last-name>
>    Franklin</last-name>
> </author>

It looks like you are trying to roll your own XML parser.  Why?

jimk