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This would add spaces into the data. If you do not want the data split into lines, do not split it. It's much better to assign all the data into a single scalar right away than to split it and then merge it back.

my $data = qx[$cmd];

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Re^3: XML parsing
by mscharrer (Hermit) on Sep 17, 2008 at 15:23 UTC
    Yes, you are of course right. I was only looking on the xmlin line not on the qx one. However, the added spaces shouldn't do any harm in normal XML files.

    I had the "@array" version in mind because I used XML::Simple just this week and had to read the input file manually line-wise to fix a known broken tag before calling xmlin.

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      Depends on what do you call normal. It will not corrupt the XML, but it may change the text content of some tags. Even in a data-oriented XML. I don't know about your XML files, but mine often do contain tags with several lines long content.

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        Jenda, you are of course right in the general case. My original posting said "use stringification or join" to avoid that the 2nd and later lines are taken as XML::Simple options. I was just pointing the OP in the right direction and was trusting him to figure out if spaces are significant for his application or not. If so, a local $" = '' or, like I said before, a  join '', @array would do the job.

        BTW, my XML file was a XHTML website.

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