Ah sorry, that that was an object method didn't cross my mind. I probably can't really help you as I don't know Soap::Lite and I didn't find the search method in its documentation. But one thing is certain, your foreach is not right. It might be one of these: 

foreach my $r (keys %$result){
   print $r->result->{Person}->{commonname};
}

foreach my $r ($result->result){
   print $r->{Person}->{commonname};
}

foreach my $r (@$result){
   print $r->result->{Person}->{commonname};
}

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If not, you might use Data::Dumper to check out the data structure of $result. Or look for an example in the documentation of the search method

The error message 'Can't coerce...' means there is an array somewhere and we access it as a hash. Data::Dumper is your friend here.

UPDATED

In reply to Re^3: SOAP::Lite and hash of hashes by jethro
in thread SOAP::Lite and hash of hashes by joec_

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