Hi guys/gals,

I'm trying to work out why my "eval" wont work. Basically I am grabbing an XML file, but for some reason they return errors ( no results) like so: 

{
  "error":{
    "type":"ServiceException",
    "code":108,
    "message":"(#108) No results founds"
  }
}

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... but the actual results as XML (which XMLIn gives a fatal error on, as obviously thats not XML!)

Anyway, my reason for posting is that I can't see to get that above string to convert into a hash so I can check if there is an error: 

my $test = eval q|{
  "error":{
    "type":"ServiceException",
    "code":108,
    "message":"(#108) No results founds"
  }
}|;

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($test);

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Always returns:

$VAR1 = undef;

Anyone got any ideas?

TIA

Andy

In reply to Using eval, but always undef? by ultranerds

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