Ah sorry, that that was an object method didn't cross my mind. I probably can't really help you as I don't know Soap::Lite and I didn't find the search method in its documentation. But one thing is certain, your foreach is not right. It might be one of these:

foreach my $r (keys %$result){
   print $r->result->{Person}->{commonname};
}

foreach my $r ($result->result){
   print $r->{Person}->{commonname};
}

foreach my $r (@$result){
   print $r->result->{Person}->{commonname};
}
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If not, you might use Data::Dumper to check out the data structure of $result. Or look for an example in the documentation of the search method

The error message 'Can't coerce...' means there is an array somewhere and we access it as a hash. Data::Dumper is your friend here.

UPDATED

Hi, thanks for responding.

foreach my $r (keys %$result){
   print $r->result->{Person}->{commonname};
}
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gives Can't locate object method "result" via package "_content" (perhaps you forgot to load "_content"?) at ./searchPeople.pl

foreach my $r ($result->result){
   print $r->{Person}->{commonname};
}
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works for a unique item i.e. login id but gives the pseudo hash deprecated error and bad index error as above

foreach my $r (@$result){
   print $r->result->{Person}->{commonname};
}
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Gives 'not an ARRAY reference'.

This is output from data dumper when the search method is given 'shaw', ive truncated a load of other data and other people for demo purposes:

$VAR1 = {
          'Person' => [
                      {
                        'commonname' => 'person 1',
                        'location' => 'location 1',
                        'telephonenumber' => '34567688',
                        'surname' => 'Shaw'
                      },
                      {
                        'commonname' => 'person 2',
                        'location' => 'location 2',
                        'telephonenumber' => '1234576',
                        'surname' => 'Birkinshaw'
                      }
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Looking at this then, is Person an array and not a hash? How would i get at each element of the person array if it is?

The search method isnt part of the SOAP::Lite docs - its a web method from my webservice.

Thanks

Joe

UPDATE I can get at the second person using

print $result->result->{Person}[1]->{commonname};
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Now all i need is a loop...thanks

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Eschew obfuscation, espouse eludication!

$result->result->{Person} is a reference to an array

foreach my $r (@{$result->result->{Person}}){
   print $r->{commonname};
}
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