Hi,
Can anyone tell me how I can use XMLout() from XML::Simple to write out XML to an external foo.xml file.

My foo.xml file looks like this

<profile username="Tom" language="eng" lastlogin="">
  <bids>
    <itemcode>4985874875</itemcode>
    <itemcode>7685976785</itemcode>
    <itemcode>6758679837</itemcode>
    <itemcode>7849609576</itemcode>
    <itemcode>2857689576</itemcode>
  </bids>
  <itemwatch>
    <itemcode>6758767856</itemcode>
    <itemcode>3758678576</itemcode>
  </itemwatch>
</profile>

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I have this code to read in the XML file.

#!c:\perl\bin\perl -w

use XML::Simple;
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

my $config = XMLin();

print "content-type:text/html\n\n";
 
print "<h1>Then</h1>";
foreach (@{$config->{bids}->{itemcode}}) {
  print $_, "<br/>";
}

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I then have this code to add a new value to the hash ref thing and then try to write this out again using XMLout() but it doesn't work... what am I doing wrong? Do I need to use Storable module, or maybe just open a file handle and do it manually...?!

push @{$config->{bids}->{itemcode}}, 'newcode43545';

print "<h1>Now</h1>";
foreach (@{$config->{bids}->{itemcode}}) {
  print $_, "<br/>";
}

XMLout($config);

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Thanks!
Tom

In reply to Writing Out XML using XML::Simple by Anonymous Monk

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