Hi All,

Want to convert txt file to xm,using xml::simple.

Hash of hash is not forming correctly. Can anyone please guide me to resolve, the root cause of mal-forming of hash. 

use Data::Dumper;
my $path;
my @data;
my $final = {};
while (<DATA>){
    last if /^__END__$/;         # stop when __END__ is encountered
    s/\n//gsi;
    s/=/./gsi;
    push (@data,$_);
}

foreach (@data){
    print "$_ \n";
    createHash($_);
}
print Dumper(\$final);

sub createHash{
    
    my $val = shift;
    my @x = split('\.',$val); 
    my $i = 0;
    my $f = {};
    while($i < scalar(@x)){
        
        $f->{$x[$i+1]} = '['.$x[$i+2].']';
        
        if(exists($final->{$x[$i]})){
            print "second\n";
            ($final->{$x[$i]}, $f);
        }
        else{
            print "first\n";
            $final->{$x[$i]} = ($final->{$x[$i]}, $f);    
        }
        

        $i = $i+3;
        #print Dumper(\$final);    
    }

}
use XML::Simple;
$path = 'text2xml.xml';
open my $fh, '>:encoding(iso-8859-1)', $path or die "open($path): $!";
XMLout($final, OutputFile => $fh);


__DATA__


a.b='xyz'
a.c='abc'
d='def'
a.e='ghi'

__END__

## expected output
<a>
    <b>xyz</b>
    <c>abc</c>
    <e>ghi</e>
</a>    
<d>de</d>

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Thanks in advance.

In reply to Ill-formed hash of hash - to convert text to xml by themonk

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