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I'm a level 10 C/C++ coder, level 2 ASM coder, and now need to tri-class with Perl. Here is a bit of code I'm having trouble with:

my @bucketList = $_xmlData->{Bucket};    
    
open(DEBUG, ">bucketList.txt");    
print DEBUG Dumper(@bucketList);        
close(DEBUG);    

foreach my $bucket ( @bucketList )
{
    open(DEBUG, ">bucket.txt");    
    print DEBUG Dumper($bucket);        
    close(DEBUG);    
}
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$_xmlData holds the data returned from an XML::Simple::XMLin call, Bucket being the key that references an array of all these things called buckets. Dumper is a function in Data (not sure if it's a commonly used tool, but it seems to print out arrays and hashes nicely). Trying to handle this with a foreach loop, I put all that data into @bucketList. The dump shows that it is all ok. The problem is with my foreach variable, $bucket. I would think that it would be set to each element of @bucketList sequentially. According to the dump, it's actually set to the entire array. What am I doing wrong? as requested, here are snippets of the dumps: bucketList:

$VAR1 = [
          {
            'ExeVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseStatus' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ExeName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'Priority' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'TotalHits' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseURL' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'BucketID' => NDA_BLOCKED'
          },
          {
            'ExeVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseStatus' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ExeName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'Priority' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'TotalHits' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseURL' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'BucketID' => NDA_BLOCKED'
          },
          {
            'ExeVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseStatus' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ExeName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'Priority' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'TotalHits' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseURL' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'BucketID' => NDA_BLOCKED'
          }]
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bucket:

$VAR1 = [
          {
            'ExeVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseStatus' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ExeName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'Priority' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'TotalHits' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseURL' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'BucketID' => NDA_BLOCKED'
          },
          {
            'ExeVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseStatus' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ExeName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'Priority' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'TotalHits' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseURL' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'BucketID' => NDA_BLOCKED'
          },
          {
            'ExeVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleVersion' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseStatus' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ExeName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'Priority' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'TotalHits' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ResponseURL' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'ModuleName' => NDA_BLOCKED,
            'BucketID' => NDA_BLOCKED'
          }]
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Code tags added by Arunbear

In reply to foreach not doing what I expect it to be doing by skorman00

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