Also completely un-related to your problem... you can eliminate your print_file_name sub, and use the basename function from the File::Basename module instead. Less code for you to maintain, and it's more portable.

Regarding your problem... if it is possible for you to post a very small sample of your XML code here, please do so, as that would allow any of us to easily duplicate your problem. I followed your link, but it asked me to create some kind of account. That's too much of a commitment for me :)

Also, your code layout is a little difficult to follow. I used perltidy to clean it up a bit. You could do that also, and re-post, if you are so-inclined.

Update: I believe you should call $twig->parsefile() immediately after you call the twig constructor (new()), not near the end of your foreach loop.

In reply to Re: Returning the right results, but at the wrong time from subroutines by toolic
in thread Returning the right results, but at the wrong time from subroutines by leighgable

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