When you're posting code on here, you really should wrap your copy/pasted items with <code> ... </code>. I'm guessing you probably saw:

$VAR1 = {
     'host' => {
           'jimmy.foo.com' => {
                      'hardware' => ['eht0', 'eht1'],
                      'duty' => 'web'
           },
      },
};

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So basically, you have a hash of hashes of hashes of something that might be an array. What you'll want to do is force them all to be an array (pass in ForceArray => [ qw(duty) ] to XMLin, or when you create a new XML::Simple object), or you'll have to check for each one:

my $hosts = $data->{'host'};
foreach my $host ( keys %$hosts ) {
    my $duties = $hosts->{$host}->{'duty'};
    print "$host : $_\n"
      foreach ( UNIVERSAL::isa( $duties, 'ARRAY' )
        ? @$duties
        : $duties );
}

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In reply to Re^3: XML parsing by jhourcle
in thread XML parsing by Anonymous Monk

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