The value I ask is not brought back though and I am failing to see why! After this works I will then go onto the look at forceArray (which I have had some success with in the past and the other XML::Simple problems.......

That you don't get the multiple values back for Placemark is immediately related to you not using ForceArray. So you need to attack the "two problems" in one go.

A Perl hash can only store one value for a single key. You have multiple Placemark tags, so these cannot be stored in a single hash entry except as an array (reference). Hence, you will need (untested):

my @places = @{$parse->{Placemark}};
while (my ($key, $val) = each %{$place}) {
    printf "%s is at %s\n", $key,  $val->{Point}{coordinates};
}

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That code won't work for a file with only a single Placemark entry, hence you will need ForceArray.

See References Quick Reference.

In reply to Re^3: Using KML in XML::Simple by Corion
in thread Using KML in XML::Simple by carterniall

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