Hi Perl Monks,

I'm trying to map a list of tags in xml into an array in perl. At the moment i have:

XML:

 <Players>
 <PlayerA>Name_A</PlayerA>
 <PlayerB>Name_B</PlayerB>
 ...
 <PlayerN>Name_N</PlayerN>
<Players>

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Perl:

use XML::Simple;
use Text::Iconv;

my $iconv;
my $xmlconf = XMLin("players.xml");
my $players = $iconv->convert($xmlconf->{Players});
my $player = 'J';
my @players_list = \$players;

foreach my $play (@players_list)
{
 if($play eq $player)
 {
  print "Player found";
  last;
 }
}

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However, I'm getting an error saying that Hash cannot be used a array while strict refs are in use.

Is there any other way to convert the map of hash to array?

Thanks

In reply to Map multiple xml tags to array by Anonymous Monk

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