Careful with your dot-star usage. This might run out of control and grab everything between the first open tag and the last close tag, regardless of all the opens and closes in the middle. Using .*? is a bit safer, but still, you should be using one of the many, many XML parsers, such as XML::DOM, XML::SAX and the like.

As for your hash problem, just reference the data in your array of hashes directly: 
foreach my $entry (@{$self->{valuePair}})
{
     print "value=", $entry->{value}, $/;
     print "targetPo=", $entry->{targetPo}, $/;    
}

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You can even index without iterating, such as $self-{valuePair}[0]{value} and so forth.

In reply to Re: HoAoH by tadman
in thread hashes, arrays, and references... oh my by regan

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