Restoring a DataStructure ??

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm using Data::DumpXML to dump a complex data strcuture to XML, and when I restore it with Data::DumpXML::Parser its returning a reference to an array.
I've tried deferencing it by:

my $newds = @{$new}

Data::DumXML::Parser output # NEW DATA STRUCTURE WITH ARRAY REF
$VAR1 = [
    bless( {
        'tree' => {
            'aggregatePsExtentTable' => {
                '1' => 'aggregatePsExtentEntry'

Data::Dumper output # ORIGINAL DATA STRUCTURE
$VAR1 = bless( {
         'tree' => {
             'aggregatePsExtentEntry' => {
                 '1' => 'aggPsExtentIndex',
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How can I grab the array ref so it's like the original? This should be simple

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Re: Restoring a DataStructure ?? by kvale (Monsignor) on May 17, 2004 at 20:08 UTC
You are are correct in that you need to dereference. In this case, the original data structure is contained in the first element of an anonymous array, so `my $dumper = $parser->[0];` [download] extracts the data structure you want. -Mark	[reply] [d/l]