Hello everyone, I'm using XML::Simple to parse some xml. One of the items has a URL in it.  <results_link>https://myserver.com/app/search?q=%7Cloadjob%20scheduler_amJ1bGxvdWdoQGRldi1hbWVyaWNhZmlyc3QuY29t_at_1496880600_682%20%7C%20head%2020%20%7C%20tail%201&amp;earliest=0&amp;latest=now</results_link> I take the all of the XML results I have and pass it through the XML parser 
$parsedPayload = XMLin($Payload)
$ReportURL = $parsedPayload->{results_link};

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Weather I use $ReportURL or $parsedPayload->{results_link} I see that &amp; is now just &. I'm taking XML from one system and passing it as XML to another system. As a result, the stripped & are causing me an issue. Bug? By design? is there another module I should use? thanks all!

In reply to &amp; and XML::Simple by Jazz-jj

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