Hey Folks, A quick question if you will... I'm parsing an XML Document into a perl data structure using XML::Simple with the default (Read: No) options. I'm trying to do something with each of the "Map" elements that get parsed out of the XML but i'm not iterating correctly over the structure. Here's my code 
my $refdata = XMLin('C:/myxmltest.xml');
print ref($refdata) . "\n";            # Prints out HASH
print ref($refdata->{'Map'}) ."\n";        # Prints out ARRAY
print ref($refdata->{'Map'}[0]) . "\n";        # Prints out HASH

# But when I try ...
foreach my $href ( $refdata->{'Map'} ){
    print $href->{'MapId'} ."\n";
}

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I get a Argument "VC3NEDX$" isn't numeric in hash element at E:\code\xmltest2.pl line 23. Bad index while coercing array into hash at E:\code\xmltest2.pl line 23. Although 'VC3NEDX$' is exactly what i want to print out and is indeed available in $refdata->{'Map'}[0]->{'MapId'} Me thinks i need a little Smack, Up-side the head. Thanks, Dan.

In reply to Perl DSC and or XML::Simple by dataDrone

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