XML to Perl array

Question

Hi,

I am facing a scenario like this,

I have a XML file, i need to parse it using XML::Simple module (using perl). The output is in Hashes (i use dumper).

I need to convert the output (which is in hash ) to a list or an array. Help me please.

XML:

<employee>
    <name>John Doe</name>
    <age>43</age>
    <sex>M</sex>
    <department>Operations</department>
</employee>

and its output with XML::Simple,

$VAR1 = {
          'department' => 'Operations',
          'name' => 'John Doe',
          'sex' => 'M',
          'age' => '43'
        };

Answer 1

If you are too lazy to do it by hand, use Hash::Flatten.

Answer 2

to convert into an array ref

$array_ref = [ %$hash_ref ];

to dereference into an array

@array = @{$array_ref};