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More options May 10, 12:04 pm

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From: imthenachoman <imthenacho...@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 09:04:53 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sat, May 10 2008 12:04 pm

Subject: XML::Simple

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I am having some problems with XML::Simple and forcearray. I am trying
to get the XML file read in as an array instead of into a hash. I am
on Perl 5.6.1 and XML::Simple 1.06 and I can not updated. I have to
figure out how to do this on the system I am on.

########################################################################### #########
XML File:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<apps>
<app name="a" id="a">
</app>
<app name="b" id="b">
</app>
</apps>

########################################################################### #########
Perl Script:
my $xml = new XML::Simple();
my $data = $xml->XMLin(undef, forcearray => ['blah', 'apps','app',
'name', 'id'] );

print( Dumper($data) );

########################################################################### #########
Output:
$VAR1 = {
'app' => {
'a' => {
'id' => 'a'
},
'b' => {
'id' => 'b'
}
}
}

########################################################################### #########
Desired Output:
$VAR1 = {
'app' => [
{
name => 'a',
id => 'a'
},
{
name => 'b',
id => 'b'
}
]
}

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