in reply to XML::Simple Issues

Your program works for me, so I'm not sure what went wrong during your installation, deinstallation and reinstallation of XML::Simple. If you are using the system Perl (as indicated by your hashbang line of /usr/bin/perl), then I strongly advise you to use your OS package manager (apt-get, or aptitude) to install the Debian package of the Perl module instead of going via CPAN. Likely, the following will install the appropriate Debian package:

apt-get install libxml-simple-perl

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Re^2: XML::Simple Issues
by tigerstorms (Initiate) on Dec 30, 2010 at 02:08 UTC

    I tried to install apt-get install libxml-simple-perl after it installed i tried to run the code again. perl -we use XML::Simple; print $INC{'XML/Simple.pm'} and I get the error still below

    syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
Warning: unknown mime-type for "{XML/Simple.pm}" -- using "application
+/octet-stream"
Error: no such file "{XML/Simple.pm}"

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      $ perl -e use
syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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      See perlrun

      Alternatively, make a file 

      $ cat junk87.pl

use XML::Simple;
print $INC{'XML/Simple.pm'}


$ perl junk87.pl
C:/perl/site/5.10.1/lib/XML/Simple.pm

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        When I run the perl script you gave me I get the message /etc/perl/XML/Simple.pm the first 20 lines of the file are as follows

        
package LWP::Simple;

use strict;
use vars qw($ua %loop_check $FULL_LWP @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK $VERSION);

require Exporter;

@EXPORT = qw(get head getprint getstore mirror);
@EXPORT_OK = qw($ua);

# I really hate this.  I was a bad idea to do it in the first place.
# Wonder how to get rid of it???  (It even makes LWP::Simple 7% slower
# for trivial tests)
use HTTP::Status;
push(@EXPORT, @HTTP::Status::EXPORT);

$VERSION = "5.810";
$FULL_LWP++ if grep {lc($_) eq "http_proxy"} keys %ENV;

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        I'm unable to remove the package LWP::Simple. however I was able to install the one you gave me, like I have tried to install XML::Simple many different times before and came up with the same error. When I pull up  perl -MCPAN -e shell and type in "r" to pull the list of all installed modules I can't find the LWP or the XML::Simple anywhere in the list after it was installed. So, I'm half temppted to just reinstall my OS as a whole and start fresh since I can't seem to find where it keeps pointing to this file or how it was even created.

        When I do a locate Simple.pm I come up with this

        /etc/perl/Simple.pm
/etc/perl/XML/Simple.pm
/root/.cpan/build/XML-Simple-2.18-6AUYLc/lib/XML/Simple.pm
/root/XML-Simple-2.18/blib/lib/XML/Simple.pm
/root/XML-Simple-2.18/lib/XML/Simple.pm
/usr/share/perl/5.10.0/Filter/Simple.pm
/usr/share/perl/5.10.0/Locale/Maketext/Simple.pm
/usr/share/perl/5.10.0/Log/Message/Simple.pm
/usr/share/perl/5.10.0/Pod/Simple.pm
/usr/share/perl/5.10.0/Test/Simple.pm
/usr/share/perl5/LWP/Simple.pm
/usr/share/perl5/XML/Simple.pm

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        I've checked all the files and the only one that's different is in the /usr/share/perl5/XML/Simple.pm

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