Good day, This email is to inform you we did not receive bla bla bla bla Thank you. bla bla bla bla x@y.com, z@y.com #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; use local::lib; use XML::Smart; my $XML = XML::Smart->new('junk.xml'); my $isconditional; my $otherwise; for (my $i=0; $i < 1000; $i++){ last if ! exists ($XML->{actions}{emailNotification}[$i]{body}); my $body = $XML->{actions}{emailNotification}[$i]{body}->content(); $XML->{actions}{emailNotification}[$i]{body} = $body; say '$body: ' . $body; say 'xml body: ' . $XML->{actions}{emailNotification}[$i]{body}; say $XML->data; } #### $body: Good day, This email is to inform you we did not receive bla bla bla bla Thank you. bla bla bla bla xml body: Good day, This email is to inform you we did not receive bla bla bla bla Thank you. bla bla bla bla Good day, This email is to inform you we did not receive bla bla bla bla Thank you. bla bla bla bla x@y.com, z@y.com 1