Well as said above you really ought to parse this a pure xml.

You also don't say what's wrong with the output, which makes is hard to guess what the correct out put should be.

Anyway, if you're intent on hacking this, the following code give the output as described. Is this what you're after?

(PS. Could you change the title to something more searchable like 'problem parsing xml into a hash?') 

while (my $str = <DATA>) {
    chomp($str);
    $comp = $1 if $str =~ m{<COMP_NAME>(.*?)</COMP_NAME>};
    $cmd  = $1 if $str =~ m{<CCC_NAME>(.*?)</CCC_NAME>};

    if ($str =~ m{<TC_LOC>(.*?)</TC_LOC>}) {
        $hoh{$comp}{$cmd}{$1} = undef;
    }

}

print Dumper \%hoh;

__OUTPUT__
$VAR1 = {
  'ip' => {
    'ip1' => {
               '/tftpboot/tc1' => undef
             },
    'ip2' => {
               '/tftpboot/tc3' => undef,
               '/tftpboot/tc4' => undef,
               '/tftpboot/tc1' => undef
             }
  },
  'parser' => {
    'p2' => {
              '/tftpboot/tc1' => undef
            },
    'p3' => {
              '/tftpboot/tc2' => undef,
              '/tftpboot/tc3' => undef,
              '/tftpboot/tc1' => undef
            },
    'p1' => {
              '/tftpboot/tc2' => undef,
              '/tftpboot/tc1' => undef
            }
  }
};

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my name's not Keith, and I'm not reasonable.

In reply to Re: error in my code by reasonablekeith
in thread problem parsing XML into hash by rsennat

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