Hello Monks,

I am trying to add a hash to a hash reference. Here is a snippet of the original xml data. 
  <policies>
    <New name="Test3"
         date="28-8-104"
         description="asdf"
         link_name="Test3.doc" />
    <Newer name="Whatever"
           date="28-8-104"
           description="asdf"
           link_name="Whatever.doc" />
    <policies2 name="General Admit to GPRMC"
               catagory="General"
               description=""
               link_name="General Admit to GPRMC.doc" />
  </policies>

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Here is the perl code I am using. 
use strict;
my $xs = new XML::Simple;
my $xml = $xs->XMLin("$folder_path\\policies.xml", forcearray => 1, ke
+yattr => ['policies']);

my $hash_add = [{
                   $cat => [{
                       'name' => "$name",
                       'link_name' => "$link_name",
                       'description' => "$desc",
                       'date' => "$today_date"
                }]
}];

# Add to hash
push (@{$xml->{'policies'}}, $hash_add);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

# Sort hash
@{ $xml->{'policies'} } = sort { "\L$a->{name}" cmp "\L$b->{name}"} @{
+ $xml->{'policies'} };
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($xml);
$xs->XMLout($xml, outputfile => "$folder_path\\policies.xml", attrinde
+nt => 1);

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This is the data dump that I come out with is. 
          'policies' => [
                          {
                            'New' => [
                                     {
                                       'date' => '28-8-104',
                                       'name' => 'Test3',
                                       'link_name' => 'Test3.doc',
                                       'description' => 'asdf'
                                     }
                                   ],
                            'policies2' => [
                                           {
                                             'name' => 'General Admit 
+to GPRMC',
                                             'link_name' => 'General A
+dmit to GPRMC.doc',
                                             'description' => '',
                                             'catagory' => 'General'
                                           }
                                         ],
                            'Newer' => [
                                       {
                                         'date' => '28-8-104',
                                         'name' => 'Whatever',
                                         'link_name' => 'Whatever.doc'
+,
                                         'description' => 'asdf'
                                       }
                                     ]
                          },
                          [
                            {
                              'Newer' => {
                                           'date' => '28-8-104',
                                           'name' => 'whatever',
                                           'description' => 'something
+',
                                           'link_name' => 'whatever.do
+c'
                                         }
                            }
                          ]
                        ]

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But my xml file looks like this. 
  <policies>
    <New name="Test3"
         date="28-8-104"
         description="asdf"
         link_name="Test3.doc" />
    <Newer name="Whatever"
           date="28-8-104"
           description="asdf"
           link_name="Whatever.doc" />
    <policies2 name="General Admit to GPRMC"
               catagory="General"
               description=""
               link_name="General Admit to GPRMC.doc" />
  </policies>
  <policies>
    <anon name="whatever"
          date="28-8-104"
          description="something"
          link_name="whatever.doc" />
  </policies>

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My question is how do I get it so that it isn't adding the extra policies brackets. And how do I sort the catagories and the name inside of the catagories. I get the error "No such pseudo-hash field "name"" I apologize for the long post, but I wanted to be as thorough as I could. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

In reply to Adding a hash to a hash reference. by bkiahg

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