in reply to Re^4: Read the attribute from xml file
in thread Read the attribute from xml file

I'm not here to write programs for you. Check out this for help in working with references.

$VAR1 = { 'name' => 'Constants', 'attribute' => [ { 'identifier' => '00', 'required' => ' true ', 'name' => ' session_id ', 'type' => ' string ', 'ilog' => { 'visible' => ' false ', 'alternate' => ' session id in st +ring format ' } }, { 'identifier' => '01', 'required' => ' false ', 'type' => ' int ', 'name' => ' volume ', 'ilog' => { 'alternate' => ' the volume ', 'visible' => ' false ' } } ], 'properties' => { 'visible' => ' false ' }, 'serviceKey' => '0', 'version' => '0', 'ui-visible' => '0', 'id' => '0', 'rateTableName' => '' };

In your program, $Event is a hash reference. The data you want is under the attribute key. So you'd start with $Event->{attribute}. That is an array ref. Each element of that array is ANOTHER hash ref. 'name' and 'required' are keys in that hash.

What I usually do in this situation is run the program in the debugger. Then I can incrementally build the expression that gets to the data I need.

If you're thinking 'wow, this is alot of work', well yeah it is. That's why you should invest the time to learn a real XML module instead of XML::Simple.

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