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in thread Reaped: Extract XML data in perl

So, what does your program output and how does it fail? How is that different from what you expect?

See Data::Dumper for inspecting the data structure you have and References Quick Reference for how to access the data within the data structure.

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Re^4: Extract XML data in perl
by Ping_Bee (Initiate) on Oct 01, 2015 at 12:32 UTC
    Compressed Ouput as below, 
    VAR1 = {
          'Status' => 'Success',
          'Definition' => {
                               '31128' => {
                                          'priority' => '3',
                                          'R' => {
                                                       '
                                                       'id' => '38873'
                                                      },
                                          'ctime' => '1438886368631',
                                          'parent' => '12118',
                                          'count' => '0',
                                          'mtime' => '1438886368631',
                                          'name'  => `Apple`

                      }

                '31351' => {
                                          'priority' => '3',
                                          'R' => {
                                                       '
                                                       'id' => '53328'
                                                      },
                                          'ctime' => '1438886368631',
                                          'parent' => '12118',
                                          'count' => '0',
                                          'mtime' => '1438886368631',
                                          'name'  => `Orange`

                      }

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    expected output is only names (apple,orange)
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