Re: XML parsing Help..

You need to look at the "ForceArray" option in the XML::Simple documentation.

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Re^2: XML parsing Help.. by bioswami (Novice) on Nov 10, 2006 at 09:41 UTC
Thanks davorg. That does help. For someone else who comes here looking for an answer to this same Q, here is what I did: `$xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[],ForceArray=>['substrate','product' +]);` [download] So I specifically made all "substrate" and "product" elements into arrays. I then had to figure out the number of elements in that array. And this I did by: `foreach $g (@{$data->{reaction}}){ $length = scalar @{$g->{substrate}}; print " $g->{name}, len = $length\n"; }` [download] Thanks for all your help! Cheers, Bioswami	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: XML parsing Help..
by bioswami (Novice) on Nov 10, 2006 at 09:41 UTC

$xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[],ForceArray=>['substrate','product'
+]);
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foreach $g (@{$data->{reaction}}){
        $length = scalar @{$g->{substrate}};
        print " $g->{name}, len = $length\n";
}
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