In that case I suggest that you try the "expanded" version of the line - that will be much easier to diagnose. If you still have trouble try generating a code sample that demonstrates the problem without requiring the extranious code. Something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $doc = {Result => {first => 1, second => 2} #['first', 'second'] }; my @list; if (ref $doc->{Result} eq "HASH") { @list = keys %{$doc->{Result}}; } elsif (ref $doc->{Result} eq "ARRAY") { @list = @{$doc->{Result}}; } else { @list = (); } for (@list) { print "$_\n"; }

which prints the following (without errors or warnings):

first second

You might also like to use Data::Dump::Streamer to dump the contents of $doc so that you can see what is causing grief in the data.


DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^3: Parsing Yahoo XML Response by GrandFather
in thread Parsing Yahoo XML Response by ecuguru

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