Perl monks, I have a wee problem I can seem to solve. I don't want to get into should XML::Simple be used, it's not relevant to my question... I don't think. Below is some very simple XML and below that the output after passing it through Dumper.
As you can see phone2 is a blank tag (no contents) and it has the oddest representation in the Dumper output. How do I detect that? my $xml = XMLin ($data, ForceArray => 0) For non-blank tags <phone1></phone1> / $xml->{message}->{phone1} works fine. for a blank tag, I get other less interesting data. Suggestions? <event> <type>ADD</type> <message> <msgtype>PHONE</msgtype> <phone1>15105551212</phone1> <phone2></phone2> <wav>YES</wav> <custID>digits</custID> <status>ALERT</status> </message> </event> $VAR1 = { 'type' => 'ADD', 'message' => { 'status' => 'ALERT', 'phone1' => '15105551212', 'custID' => 'digits', 'phone2' => {}, 'wav' => 'YES', 'msgtype' => 'PHONE' } }; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/