I am trying to get this XML parsing stuff figured out. I am using XML::Simple which has turned out to be...simple. My problem now is with handling the data afterwards. I need to know how many sets of <Table> data are in there, so I can cycle through them. I can't figure out how to get a count though! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use XML::Simple;
  
my $xml = qq|<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<NewDataSet>
  <Table>
    <CITY>Provo</CITY>
    <STATE>UT</STATE>
    <ZIP>84601</ZIP>
    <AREA_CODE>801</AREA_CODE>
    <TIME_ZONE>M</TIME_ZONE>
  </Table>
  <Table>
    <CITY>Provo</CITY>
    <STATE>UT</STATE>
    <ZIP>84605</ZIP>
    <AREA_CODE>801</AREA_CODE>
    <TIME_ZONE>M</TIME_ZONE>
  </Table>
  <Table>
    <CITY>Provo</CITY>
    <STATE>SD</STATE>
    <ZIP>57774</ZIP>
    <AREA_CODE>605</AREA_CODE>
    <TIME_ZONE>C</TIME_ZONE>
  </Table>
  <Table>
    <CITY>Provo</CITY>
    <STATE>KY</STATE>
    <ZIP>42267</ZIP>
    <AREA_CODE>502</AREA_CODE>
    <TIME_ZONE>E</TIME_ZONE>
  </Table>
</NewDataSet>|;


my $perl = XMLin($xml);
use Data::Dumper;

my @table = $perl->{Table};
my @newtable = $table[0];
my $count = @newtable;


print Dumper(\@newtable);
print "Count is $count\n";
print "State is $newtable[0][3]{STATE}\n";

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Of course I will be putting in some dynamic XML when I get this to work, so I need to know how many elements were returned so I can get city, state, and zip information out for each entry. Here are the results of the above code, and obviously the count is 1 because that is how many arrays there are. I am sure it is not overly complicated, I have just tried and tried to no avail. 
$VAR1 = [
          [
            {
              'STATE' => 'UT',
              'ZIP' => '84601',
              'AREA_CODE' => '801',
              'TIME_ZONE' => 'M',
              'CITY' => 'Provo'
            },
            {
              'STATE' => 'UT',
              'ZIP' => '84605',
              'AREA_CODE' => '801',
              'TIME_ZONE' => 'M',
              'CITY' => 'Provo'
            },
            {
              'STATE' => 'SD',
              'ZIP' => '57774',
              'AREA_CODE' => '605',
              'TIME_ZONE' => 'C',
              'CITY' => 'Provo'
            },
            {
              'STATE' => 'KY',
              'ZIP' => '42267',
              'AREA_CODE' => '502',
              'TIME_ZONE' => 'E',
              'CITY' => 'Provo'
            }
          ]
        ];
Count is 1
State is KY

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In reply to Managing data after XML::Simple...count elements by inblosam

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