in reply to Using eval, but always undef?

in perl it's ¹ => not : separating keys and values.

maybe you wanna use a JSON module for conversion?

Cheers Rolf

¹) normally, commas are allowed if you quote the key

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Re^2: Using eval, but always undef?
by ultranerds (Hermit) on Mar 01, 2012 at 17:53 UTC
    Mmm ok, I was hoping it was simpler than that. Maybe I'll just do:

    $test =~ /\Q"type":"ServiceException",/

    ...on the XML string, so I can see if it is as "bad" file :)

    Thanks for the replies though.

    Cheers

    Andy
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      It is simple (JSON). 

      use JSON;

my $json_string = q|{
  "error":{
    "type":"ServiceException",
    "code":108,
    "message":"(#108) No results founds"
  }
}|;

my $perl_ref = decode_json($json_string);

print $perl_ref->{error}{type}, $/;

__END__
ServiceException

      [download]

      Don't fudge it. Use the right tools. Everything else is false economy.

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