Hello Everyone

I am struck how to start script

in my .txt file i have some of ips and i need to retive the ip and it need to convet into xml file

in .txt file ips like his

client1-10.1.1.1/24
clientgw1-10.1.1.2
server1-10.1.1.3/24
servergw1-10.1.1.4

client2-10.1.2.1/24
clientgw2-10.1.2.2
server2-10.1.2.3/24
servergw2-10.1.2.4

client3-10.1.3.1/24
clientg3w-10.1.3.2
server3-10.1.3.3/24
servergw3-10.1.3.4

i need to open the file and these ip need to convert into xml fomat. please hepl in this

As there is no ‘generic’ XML format that one can just convert anything into, you’ll need to specify the XML schema before anyone can help you with your task.

Hi,
Maybe the OP wanted something like so:

use warnings;
use strict;

my $sep = qr/-/;
my $xml = qq[<opt_cisco>\n];
while (<DATA>) {
    next if /^$/;
    chomp;
    my ( $tag, $content ) = split /$sep/, $_, 2;
    $xml .= qq[<$tag>$content</$tag>\n];
}
print $xml, qq[</opt_cisco>\n];

__DATA__
client1-10.1.1.1/24
clientgw1-10.1.1.2
server1-10.1.1.3/24
servergw1-10.1.1.4

client2-10.1.2.1/24
clientgw2-10.1.2.2
server2-10.1.2.3/24
servergw2-10.1.2.4

client3-10.1.3.1/24
clientg3w-10.1.3.2
server3-10.1.3.3/24
servergw3-10.1.3.4

Which will give an output like so:

<opt_cisco>
<client1>10.1.1.1/24</client1>
<clientgw1>10.1.1.2</clientgw1>
<server1>10.1.1.3/24</server1>
<servergw1>10.1.1.4</servergw1>
<client2>10.1.2.1/24</client2>
<clientgw2>10.1.2.2</clientgw2>
<server2>10.1.2.3/24</server2>
<servergw2>10.1.2.4</servergw2>
<client3>10.1.3.1/24</client3>
<clientg3w>10.1.3.2</clientg3w>
<server3>10.1.3.3/24</server3>
<servergw3>10.1.3.4</servergw3>
</opt_cisco>

Need I add that you might be better using an XML module like XML::LibXML in CPAN.

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