OK, I'm re-asking this question in a more succinct, focused manner (I hope.) I'm trying to parse a SOAP::Lite result data structure. Here's an example:

$VAR1 = {
  'Toys' => bless( {
           'Toy' => [
              bless( {
               'ToyLocations' => bless( {
                               'ToyLocation' => [
                                                {
                                            'toyQuantity' => '1',
                                            'locationName' => 'toybox'
                                                },
                                                {
                                            'toyQuantity' => '4',
                                            'locationName' => 'shelf'
                                                }
                                                ]
                                 }, 'ArrayOfToyLocation' ),
               'color' => 'none',
               'toyName' => 'Sorry',
               'size' => 'medium'
               }, 'Board' )
              ]
        }, 'ArrayOfToy' )
     };

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I'd like to list the locations and quantities along with the name from the parent node. When I parsed the data with only a single location the following code worked:

foreach my $e (@{$getToysResults->{Toys}{Toy}}){
    print "$e->{ToyLocations}{ToyLocation}{locationName}\n";
}

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But it errored with "Not a HASH reference" when there was more than one location. That's when I realized I had to use nested foreach statements to do what I needed. BUT I can't figure out how to get at the list of locations! I've tried the following:

foreach my $e (@{$getToysResults->{Toys}{Toy}{ToyLocations}{ToyLocatio
+n}}){
    print "$e->{locationName}\n";
}

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and I get a 'Not an ARRAY reference' error. What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Parsing SOAP::Lite results by Roboz

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