Hello,

You really must use strict; and use warnings; in your programs, otherwise you are rejecting Perl's built-in safety features, and there's not much point in helping when a programmer is doing that.

I believe you are looking for the ForceArray option: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Simple qw/ XMLin /;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;

local $/;

my $staff = XMLin( <DATA>, ForceArray => 1 );

foreach my $employee ( @{ $staff->{'employee'} } ) {
    print Dumper( $employee );
}

__DATA__
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<staff>
  <employee>
    <name>Pradeep</name>
    <age>23</age>
    <sex>M</sex>
    <department>Coder</department>
  </employee>
  <employee>
    <name>Pradeep</name>
    <age>22</age>
    <sex>M</sex>
    <department>HR</department>
  </employee>
</staff>

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Output: 
$VAR1 = {
          'age' => [
                     '23'
                   ],
          'department' => [
                            'Coder'
                          ],
          'name' => [
                      'Pradeep'
                    ],
          'sex' => [
                     'M'
                   ]
        };
$VAR1 = {
          'age' => [
                     '22'
                   ],
          'department' => [
                            'HR'
                          ],
          'name' => [
                      'Pradeep'
                    ],
          'sex' => [
                     'M'
                   ]
        };

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( Note that many monks recommend using XML::Twig or XML::LibXML instead, see the documentation to XML::Simple itself. )

Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Basic parsing XML perl - using FOREACH by 1nickt
in thread Basic parsing XML perl - using FOREACH by gr.d

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