After reading in a text file, I get a hash reference in my text file (HASH(0x223bb84)) if the field is blank. If the is not blank, it works fine. I am taking multiple fields from multiple text files and putting them into a comma delimited text file. Also, I would appreciate any ones comments to improve the script. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Glob;
use XML::Simple;

open DIPFILE, ">> C:/director/DIPFILE.TXT";
open LOGFILE, ">> C:/director/DIPLOG.LOG";

#Pull in all the xml files for each report.
my @dipfile = glob('C:/director/*.xml');

foreach my $x (@dipfile) {
    my $ref = XML::Simple::XMLin($x);
    print '"' . $x . '","' . $ref->{defaultName} . '","' . $ref->{defa
+ultDescription} . '","' . $ref->{reportExecutionTime} . '"' . "\n";
    printf DIPFILE '"' . $x . '","' . $ref->{defaultName} . '","' . $r
+ef->{defaultDescription} . '","' . $ref->{reportExecutionTime} . '"' 
+. "\n";
    printf LOGFILE '"' . $x . '","' . $ref->{defaultName} . '","' . $r
+ef->{defaultDescription} . '","' . $ref->{reportExecutionTime} . '"' 
+. "\n";
}

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Thanks, Dave

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