#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use XML::Simple; use Carp; use File::Find; use File::Spec::Functions qw( canonpath ); use Data::Dumper; my @ARGV ="C:/Main/work";die "Need directories\n" unless @ARGV; find( sub { return unless ( /(_service\.xml)$/ and -f ); extract_info(); return; }, @ARGV ); sub extract_info { my $path= $_; my $xml=XMLin($path); my $xmldata_services = $xml->{Service}; my %dataservices; for my $xmldata_service (@$xmldata_services) { my %service = ( description => $xml_service->{Des}, name => $xml_service->{Name}, num => $xml_service->{NUM}, ); $service{sw} = _maybe_list( $xmldata_service->{Customers}{Software} ); $service{hw} = _maybe_list( $xml_service->{Suppliers}{Hardware} ); $service{sw} = _maybe_list( $xml_service->{Suppliers}{Software} ); $dataservices{ $service{id} } = \%service; } print Dumper \%dataservices; } sub _maybe_list { my $maybe = shift; return ref $maybe eq 'ARRAY' ? $maybe : [$maybe]; }