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    You understand that this leaves you with an xml file that is syntactically incorrect, i.e. you're missing the closing </Networks> tag by removing the line. Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 10:45
  • yes I know that ( the first Networks exist on the top of the file Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 10:46
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    Why do you need an ill formed XML file? Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 10:47
  • dont worry later I will append new lines that will be in place that line Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 10:49
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    Looks like an XY problem to me. What are you -actually- trying to accomplish? Parsing XML with regex is a bad idea, because there's lots of ways it can go wrong. Creating malformed XML deliberately is also a bad idea, for much the same reason. What problem are you trying to solve? I will probably suggest the answer is - use an XML parser, not a regex. With a bit more XML as a sample, this is actually very easy to do. Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 11:11