"e.g. instead of print "<$element->{name}>";, use print '<', $element->{name}, '>';

Personally, I'd prefer:

printf '<%s>', $element->{name};

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Update: just for the heck of it, this ain't too bad either:

print "<$_>" for $element->{name};

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Using postfix for to temporarily alias $_ is an idiom I don't see used very much, but is quite cute, and in this case has no speed penalty (quite the opposite in fact)...

use strict;
use Benchmark ':all';

open $::dummy, ">", \$::data;

cmpthese(100_000, {
    print_for  => q[ $::data = ''; print {$::dummy} "<$_>" for "a" ],
    printf     => q[ $::data = ''; printf {$::dummy} "<%s>", "a" ],
});

__END__
             Rate    printf print_for
printf     7663/s        --      -79%
print_for 36765/s      380%        --

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(PS: kcott's follow-up was posted before this update, so please don't read it as necessarily endorsing the for postfix technique.)

package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name

In reply to Re^2: How to get content of an XML::easytree output by tobyink
in thread How to get content of an XML::easytree output by Tworec

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