vparikh:

It works just fine for me. Perhaps you're doing someting to disturb your hash before you try to print it?

$ cat t.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $VAR1;

$VAR1 = {
          'Data1' => {
                     'Data2' => {
                               'DATE' => '2000-10-19',
                               'ID' => 'A95',
                               'STATUS' => 'A',
                               'TIME' => {},
                             },
                     'TIMESTAMP' => '2012-08-04T20:15:04.506-04:00'
                   }
        };

print $VAR1->{Data1}{Data2}{DATE}, ".\n";
print $VAR1->{Data1}->{Data2}->{DATE}, ".\n";

$ perl t.pl
2000-10-19.
2000-10-19.

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In reply to Re: Perl XML parsing with XML::Simple - Having problem with accessing fields by roboticus
in thread Perl XML parsing with XML::Simple - Having problem with accessing fields by vparikh

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