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in reply to Getting deep data from SOAP::Lite Result

G'day Roboz,

Firstly, the data structure you present is invalid. In the code below, I've added a closing brace to 'Mineral' => { .... Also, you show $Var1 as being a reference to a hashref: I don't know if that's correct or another typo - the following code assumes it is correct.

This code shows how you might go about achieving what you're after. I'll leave you to make adjustments for whatever typos may exist.

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my $SOAPresult = \{ 'Thing' => [ { 'Animal' => { 'ThingName' => 'Dog', 'ThingID' => '123' } }, { 'Veg' => { 'ThingName' => 'Carrot', 'ThingID' => '42' } }, { 'Mineral' => { 'ThingName' => 'Talc', 'ThingID' => '007' } } ] }; my $SOAPresult_deref = $$SOAPresult; my @types = qw{Animal Veg Mineral}; for my $type (@types) { foreach my $e ( @{ $SOAPresult_deref->{Thing} } ) { next unless exists $e->{$type}; print "Wildcard = $type\n"; print "$e->{$type}{ThingName}\n"; } }

Output:

$ pm_ref_var_access.pl Wildcard = Animal Dog Wildcard = Veg Carrot Wildcard = Mineral Talc

-- Ken