Greetings Great Perl Monks. Just starting to use XML::Simple. Does a good job. Very simply , the code bombs out and doesnt print in the test foreach loop. I forced the output into a scalar array and still Bombs. This should have fixed it. Heres what in the input file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
  <rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
  <title>Used Cars fl</title> 
  <link>http://usedcars.com</link>
  <language>en-us</language>
  <lastBuildDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:00:00 -0400</lastBuildDate>
  <copyright>Copyright 2012, West Palm Beach</copyright>
  <ttl>120</ttl>
    <item>  
      <title><![CDATA[220 Used Cars]]></title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:14:52 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://usedcars.com</link>
      <guid>http://usedcars.com</guid>     
      <description>Description of used car.</description>
    </item>
 
  </channel>
  </rss>

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Perl Code:


use CGI qw/:standard/;
use LWP::UserAgent;

use XML::Simple;
$XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER = 'XML::Parser';
use Data::Dumper;

$page=new CGI;
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
print $page->header;


$xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[''],NSExpand => 0,ForceArray=> 1);

# read XML file

$html="data_records2.txt";
$data =$xml->XMLin($html);
open(FILE1,">data_out.txt");
print FILE1 Dumper($data);

#if ($@) { warn "Error: $@\n"; 
#} 


$config_string='{channel}{item}';


 foreach $e(@{eval("\$data->$config_string")})
{
   $count++;
    print $e->{title} ,$e->{description}, $e->{link}."\n";
    
    
    }
    
close(FILE1);    
    
exit;    
    
############################################

Heres the output . Never gets to print data in the foreach loop.

$VAR1 = {
          'version' => '2.0',
          'channel' => [
                       {
                         'link' => [
                                   'http://usedcars.com'
                                 ],
                         'lastBuildDate' => [
                                            'Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:00:00
+ -0400'
                                          ],
                         'language' => [
                                       'en-us'
                                     ],
                         'ttl' => [
                                  '120'
                                ],
                         'item' => [
                                   {
                                     'link' => [
                                               'http://usedcars.com'
                                             ],
                                     'guid' => [
                                               'http://usedcars.com'
                                             ],
                                     'title' => [
                                                '220 Used Cars'
                                              ],
                                     'description' => [
                                                      'Description of 
+used car.'
                                                    ],
                                     'pubDate' => [
                                                  'Wed, 16 May 2012 20
+:14:52 -0400'
                                                ]
                                   }
                                 ],
                         'copyright' => [
                                        'Copyright 2012, West Palm Bea
+ch'
                                      ],
                         'title' => [
                                    'Used Cars fl'
                                  ]
                       }
                     ]
        };

    
******************************************************

Thanks you Oh mighty perl Gods--- I mean Monks. This appears too ez. I
+ hang my head low in light of the great ones.
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