I have been looking at extracting user_agent information from the wurfl web browsers patch using XML::Simple. I have succeeded in getting the info but it's very explicit - I was hoping that someone might show me how else this could be done. Thanks.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; 

# use module
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
use LWP::Simple;

my $url = 'http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/web_browsers_patch.xml';

my $content = get($url);

# create object
my $xml = new XML::Simple;

# read XML file
my $data = $xml->XMLin($content);

# print output

my ($key, $value) = %{ $data }; 
($key, $value) = %{ $value };

my @keys = keys %{ $value };

foreach (@keys) {

  print qq~$data->{devices}->{device}->{$_}->{user_agent}<br>\n~;


}

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In reply to WURFL web browsers patch and XML::Simple by jonnyfolk

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