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Hi, With ForceArray it works. Thanks But with KeyAttr initial try says it doesnt work, even i changed the keyword "name" to something else that time also KeyAttr changes didnt help. Am i missing something
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Re^3: XML::Simple parsing into a hash wierd behaviour
by PeterPeiGuo (Hermit) on Apr 20, 2010 at 06:55 UTC

    No, you didn't miss anything. I missed one sentence in your OP, that you wanted name as the key - you said that you didn't like the output from the single element case.

    My focus was on making the multi-element case to produce a more consistent result as the single element case ;-)

    Hope this puts both of us on the same page.

    Peter (Guo) Pei

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      My focus was on making the multi-element case to produce a more consistent result as the single element case

      That would be great since the OP asked for the single element case to stop "behaving differently". Unfortuantly, KeyAttr=>[] doesn't achieve that goal at all. 

      Default

Multiple: $tree->{type}{default}{report}
Single:   $tree->{type}         {report}    Inconsistent


KeyAttr=>[]

Multiple: $tree->{type}[0]{report}
Single:   $tree->{type}   {report}          Inconsistent


ForceArray=>[qw( type )]

Multiple: $tree->{type}{default}{report}
Single:   $tree->{type}{default}{report}    Consistent


ForceArray=>[qw( type )], KeyAttr=>[]

Multiple: $tree->{type}[0]{report}
Single:   $tree->{type}[0]{report}          Consistent

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      Yes Peter... And thanks in tons for all the replies....
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