Alt 1: Study references some more -- until they cease to confuse you. Tutorials has several entries that should be very helpful and will those threads and nodes four by Super Searching for "reference," "hashref" and similar. If need be, write some simple sample code using refs to deal with small chunks of minimally complex data. See if that helps... and if not, post again. Then, at least, we won't need to read your mind to discover WHAT element(s) of the topic "confuses" you.

Alt 2: Post that piece of your code that comes closest to doing what you want and the error messages you receive (or a sample of output and a description of how it fails to satisfy your intent.

Alt 3: Hire a programmer. If understanding references is truly outside your aptitude, you will probably make better use of your time in some other IT field (or other vocation, entirely).

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In reply to Re: XML::Simple processing by ww
in thread XML::Simple processing by LPC2010

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