XML::Parser - element data to hash?

senik148 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I need some help with XML::Parser, i have this code i been working on, i got it to work. but what i need is to pull all element data from <item> how can i pass them all into a hash? for example have the first <item> element title in the hash and the next one and so on..

$data->{channel}->{item}->[0]->{title};
$data->{channel}->{item}->[1]->{title};
$data->{channel}->{item}->[2]->{title};
$data->{channel}->{item}->[3]->{title};
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anybody....?

#!/usr/bin/perl

# import packages

use XML::Simple;
use LWP::Simple;

# initialize object

# get RSS data
$raw = get('http://movies.go.com/xml/rss/intheaters.xml');

# create object
$xml = new XML::Simple;

$data = $xml->XMLin($raw);

$title = $data->{channel}->{item}->[0]->{title};

$link = $data->{channel}->{item}->[0]->{link};

$description = $data->{channel}->{item}->[0]->{description};


print "Title: $title\n";

print "Link: $link\n\n";

print "Description: $description\n";
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ruben r.

2005-12-20 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'XML::Parser'

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Re: XML::Parser - element data to hash? by duff (Parson) on Dec 20, 2005 at 23:25 UTC
Not quite sure how you want to put the data "in a hash". Do you want the item titles to be keys or values or what? But here's a way to get all of the titles (untested): `@titles = map { $_->{title} } @{$data->{channel}{item}}` [download] duff	[reply] [d/l]
Re: XML::Parser - element data to hash? by qq (Hermit) on Dec 21, 2005 at 00:25 UTC
Are you asking for each item in a hash? If so, something like: `my @items = @{$data->{channel}->{item}}; for my $hash ( @items ) { print 'title: ' . $hash->{title}; print 'link: ' . $hash->{link}; print 'desc: ' . $hash->{description}; }` [download] But for RSS, consider one of the many CPAN modules.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: XML::Parser - element data to hash? by senik148 (Beadle) on Dec 21, 2005 at 17:24 UTC
Give me some of your brains. :) Thanx to both of you, the code did what i wanted. and i got the output i wanted. Thanx, i gave both of you + points. peace ruben r.	[reply]