Dave Adams am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 21.12:
> If I have a xml file like the following:
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <employee>
> <name>John Doe</name>
> <age>43</age>
> <sex>M</sex>
> <department>Recieving</department>
> </employee>
> <employee>
> <name>Bob Gordon</name>
> <age>50</age>
> <sex>M</sex>
> <department>Shipping</department>
> </employee>
>
>
> Is there some perl module out there that can help me get the number of
> employees or in other words, the number occurences of "<employee>"?
>
> I guess I can get it conventionally by reading in the file and doing a
> count every time the script encounters "<name>". But there must be an
> easier way.
Ok, let's start with:
perl -e 'while(<STDIN>){/<employee>/&&$i++};print $i' < data.xml
Anybody with an easier way in the sense of
- less typing
- more understandable
- less module imports ;-)
?
[preconditions: nothing else to do with the input; no CDATA containing
<employees>; valid XML; etc.]
Hans
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