Hi Community,
Really hoping to get some perl-wisdom on this one, its my second day working on Perl today, and I'm just stuck with an issue that I can't seem to figure out.
Basically I have an XML
<root>
<ref name="abc_sia_%version1.ref%">
<func envname = "test01" objectdir = "/home/pv66"
base="default_771"/>
</ref>
</root>
I want to get the ref name's value, that is "abc_sia_%version1.ref%" as my hash key and the corresponding elements of the tag in a list. So I used Simple XML's function
my $xml = new XML::Simple;
my $data = $xml->XMLin("/home/pv66", ForceArray => 1, KeyAttr => { ref
+ => "name"});
print Dumper ($data);
But this gives me
$VAR1 = {
'ref' =>
{
'abc_sia_%version1.ref' =>
{
'func' => [
{
'envname' => 'test01',
'objectdir' => '/home/pv66',
'base' => 'default_771'
}
]
}
};
And this extra level of hierarchy (after ref) is undesired. I've read at some places that XML::Simple is not the preferred module, and XMLLib should be used, but I couldn't find any resources that drew a parallel to the ForceArray attribute of the XML in method.
The desired hash should be:
$VAR1 = {
'abc_sia_%version1.ref' =>
{
'func' => [
{
'envname' => 'test01',
'objectdir' => '/home/pv66',
'base' => 'default_771'
}
]
}
};
Any help pertaining to this would be appreciated.