Will it take you an hour to write this?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $file= shift @ARGV;
my $xml= XMLin( $file);
print Dumper( $xml);

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From there the XML is loaded in a Perl structure in memory, you know what that structure is and you can start working on the interesting part of the code, not on the XML plumming.

How long did it take you to write regexp based code that does not parse XML? How long did it take you to post a question on PerlMonks and to wait for an answer?

Above all do you want code that uses a module and that works or code that does not?

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The Error Message is GOD - MJD

In reply to Re: Re: Re: No xml module please by mirod
in thread No xml module please by DS

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