Re: parsing complex xml structure with xml::simple

Happily, there is: ref will help you to identify an array reference. You could do something like this:

if (ref($detail->{Col}) eq 'ARRAY') {
  # do something
}
else {
  # do something else
}
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Update: Hmmph. I get up at 4:40 am and davorg still beat me to this answer, darn those timezone-advantaged monks! Plus, his answer is better. That ForceArray solution looks cool.

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Re^2: parsing complex xml structure with xml::simple by bfdi533 (Friar) on Aug 01, 2006 at 15:06 UTC
This is a good solution. I know that for the most part that most of the items will NOT be contained in arrays so for the ones that I know about, this seems like just the ticket! Thanks!	[reply]