Hello,
I posted a message a little while ago about a problem I was having with a CSV file... well i've given up on that one and i'm trying to read the XML file which has also been provided. I have used XML::Simple.pm, but that has given me a confusing datastructure, containing the following: 


use XML::Simple;

my $xml = XMLin($xmlfile);

my @items = @{$xml->{Item}};
print "Contains: ".Dumper(@items);

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This outputs the following...

$VAR1 = {
          'Price' => '24.9899997711',
          'SmallImageURL' => 'http://images.iwoot.com/thumbs/20qpuz_th
+u.jpg',
        };
$VAR2 = {
          'Price' => '24.9899997711',
          'SmallImageURL' => 'http://images.iwoot.com/thumbs/8bunju_th
+u.jpg',
        };
$VAR3 = {
          'Price' => '24.9899997711',
          'SmallImageURL' => 'http://images.iwoot.com/thumbs/DISRIF_th
+u.gif',
        };

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etc... can anyone just post up a bit of code to explain how I can read each of the values? Sorry its a dump question, but atleast I should be able to get this to work I hope ;-)

Thanks, Tom

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