The problem you are having is the element you are forcing to an array (A) is an array. But you're wanting ForceArray to cascade down to the children of A. Since the first element of A is a ref, it is unnamed and XML::Simple says it only takes names (or '1') in the ForceArray option.

You need to turn on ForceArray for the entire thing

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple;use Data::Dumper;
my $file = './test.xml';
my %tmp = ( 'A' => [ [1] ]);
XMLout(\%tmp,outputfile=>$file);
%tmp = %{XMLin($file,forcearray=>1};
warn Dumper(\%tmp);

%tmp = ( 'A' => [ [1,2] ]);
XMLout(\%tmp,outputfile=>$file);
%tmp = %{XMLin($file,forcearray=>1)};
warn Dumper(\%tmp);

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Outputs: 
$VAR1 = {
          'A' => [
                 [
                   '1'
                 ]
               ]
        };
$VAR1 = {
          'A' => [
                 [
                   '1',
                   '2'
                 ]
               ]
        };

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In reply to Re: Forcing to anonymous array in XML::simple by grep
in thread Forcing to anonymous array in XML::simple by rbi

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