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You still haven't answered where $error_excerpt comes from... but on second thought, maybe you meant (?)

sub error_excerpt{
    my $self = shift;
    return defined($self->{_error_excerpt}) ? $self->{_error_excerpt} 
+: "No Error Excerpt.";
}

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Re^4: Question on XML output using Perl
by siddheshsawant (Sexton) on Mar 16, 2010 at 16:29 UTC

    If I keep a code like this then I gets error_escrpt where ever it is defined ....I am getting the value from the database...the code is as follows:

     $self->{_error_excerpt} = $error_excerpt if defined($error_excerpt);
    return $self->{_error_excerpt};

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    But the problem with this code is it do not print anything when there is no error excerpt.

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      If there is no error excerpt:
      #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple qw(:strict);

sub new {
    my ($class) = @_;

    #my ($proto) = @_;
    #to make the constructor both class and object method
    #my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;

    my $self = {

        #attributes of object
        _id                 => undef,
        _user_scenario      => undef,
        _result_type        => undef,
        _result_log_link    => undef,
        _not_exposed_reason => undef,
        _error_excerpt      => undef,
        _triage             => undef,
    };

    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;
}

sub error_excerpt { }
if ( defined('_error_excerpt') ) {
    print "error Excerpt\n";
}
else {
    if ( not defined('_error_excerpt') ) {
        print "No error Excerpt exists\n";
    }
}

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