Some help on parsing text files

[Aron]

Im planning to write a script that parses an automatically generated text/xml file, which contains information about certain events on a gameserver.
It should contain information about the time, date, number of people allowed, server, etc.

I guess this can be done by searching for certain strings, which contain the info, something like this:

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<event name="eventnamehere" server="theserver" numberofpeople="x" etc,>

Now, my question is, are there any tutorials about text parsing, or could someone please briefly explain to me how i could do this?

Thanks in advance

[ppslim]

There are a few XML tools about for Tcl.

http://resource.tcl.tk/resource/software/tools/xml/

More specificaly

http://www.proprius.co.uk/resources/sxml_home.htm

This is a all Tcl XML parser.

[Aron]

thanks!