Thanks Grandfather. I did what you said and copied the dump output and added it to your code. It worked. What might be the problem is my config for using XML::Simple for reading the xml?

Here is the setting for XML::Simple 
my $data = $xml->XMLin(`$lsCmd`, ForceArray => 1);

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Here is the additional hash output. 
my $lsResults3 = {
          'recursive' => 'no',
          'version' => '0.20.202.1.1101050227',
          'time' => '2011-10-28T20:54:09+0000',
          'filter' => '.*',
          'path' => '/',
          'directory' => [
                         {
                           'owner' => 'hdfs',
                           'group' => 'hdfs',
                           'permission' => 'drwxr-xr-x',
                           'path' => '/',
                           'accesstime' => '1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000',
                           'modified' => '2011-10-06T19:30:33+0000'
                         },
                         {
                           'owner' => 'xyz',
                           'group' => 'hdfs',
                           'permission' => 'drwx------',
                           'path' => '/A29',
                           'accesstime' => '1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000',
                           'modified' => '2011-10-06T19:30:38+0000'
                         },
                         {
                           'owner' => 'rawk',
                           'group' => 'hdfs',
                           'permission' => 'drwx------',
                           'path' => '/B29TABTV001',
                           'accesstime' => '1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000',
                           'modified' => '2011-02-08T22:24:15+0000'
                         },
                         {
                           'owner' => 'xyz',
                           'group' => 'hdfs',
                           'permission' => 'drwx------',
                           'path' => '/FOOBAR',
                           'accesstime' => '1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000',
                           'modified' => '2010-10-04T10:44:17+0000'
                         },
                         {
                           'owner' => 'xyz',
                           'group' => 'hdfs',
                           'permission' => 'drwxr-xr-x',
                           'path' => '/data',
                           'accesstime' => '1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000',
                           'modified' => '2011-08-25T07:56:15+0000'
                         },
                         {
                           'owner' => 'hdfs',
                           'group' => 'hdfs',
                           'permission' => 'drwxr-xr-x',
                           'path' => '/user',
                           'accesstime' => '1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000',
                           'modified' => '2011-10-25T04:21:55+0000'
                         }
                       ],
          'exclude' => ''
};

for my $result ($lsResults1, $lsResults2, $lsResults3) {
    for (keys %$result) {
        if ($_ eq 'file') {
            print "Filename: $result->{file}{path}\n";
            print "    Size: $result->{file}{size}\n";
        } elsif ($_ eq 'directory') {
            my $value = ref $result->{directory};

            if ($value eq 'ARRAY') {
                for my $entry (@{$result->{directory}}) {
                    print "Directory: $entry->{path}\n";
                }
            } elsif ($value eq 'HASH') {
                print "Directory: $result->{directory}{path}\n";
            }
        }
    }
}

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In reply to Re^6: Setting up conditional check for printing out keys from array/hash ref by JaeDre619
in thread Setting up conditional check for printing out keys from array/hash ref by JaeDre619

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