XML Array/Hash Issue

[nickt9999]

Hi All

I am a newbie and require some help

I am parsing an XML file for errors, the format is as follows

<errors>
  <error>
   <desc></desc>
  </error>
 </errors>

I would like to be able to print the description of the error, the problem I have is that when there is only one error my script bombs out with a Not an ARRAY reference. It works perfectly fine when there is two errors in the XML file

my current code is:

my $errorArray = $data->{errors};
        foreach my $error ( @{ $errorArray->{error} } ) {
            print NEW "$error->{desc}\n";
        }

ONE ERROR:

HASH(0x7fb3d8973fa8)
$VAR1 = {
          'desc' => 'Slave not running'
        };

TWO ERRORS:

ARRAY(0x7ffc84006ad0)
$VAR1 = [
          {
            'desc' => 'Slave not running'
          },
          {
            'desc' => 'TEST123'
          }
        ];

Thanks in advance

Cheers

Nick