use strict; use XML::Simple; my $xml = < 0000003714 2013-03-04T16:01:57 1 234.00 2013-02-05 CLRG HOMEMEMEBER FOREIGNMEMBER EOX sub parsetree { my $ref = shift; my $txt = shift; foreach my $key ( keys %{$ref} ) { if( ref( $$ref{$key} ) =~ /HASH/ ) { parsetree( $$ref{$key}, $txt."::".$key ); } else { print $txt."::".$key."::".$$ref{$key}."\n"; } } } parsetree(XMLin($xml));