I am developing a script for parsing email attachments with XML data in them. The script runs just fine when there is only one message in the inbox but breaks when there is more than one. The error message is as follows:</>

Can't call method "XMLin" on unblessed reference at new_test.pl line 126.

As can be seen in the following code snippet, I have tried a couple of different things including using bless but I am not sure what the problem is.

foreach my $msgnum (keys %$msgnums)
{
        print "Parsing email...\n";

        #Get current messgae and create MIME object
        $lines = $pop3->get($msgnum);
        $current = join('', @$lines);
        $parsed = Email::MIME->new($current);

        #For each part in the message, extract the xml data
        foreach $part ($parsed->parts)
        {
                if (($part->{ct}->{discrete} eq 'application') && ($pa
+rt->{ct}->{composite} eq 'plain'))
                {
                        $xmlData = $part->body;
                        #print $xmlData;
                        #$xml = $xml->XMLin($xmlData);
                }
        }

        #For each extracted part of the xml data, parse the xml
        $xml = $xml->XMLin($xmlData);
        print "Component Data\n";

        ....
}

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Unblessed Reference Error, XMLin by rdhoggan

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