I did this shell command perl -e 'use XML::Simple qw(:strict); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper(XMLin("<xxx><_a>b</_a></xxx>", 'ForceArray' => 1, KeyAttr => []))' > delete.txt
And the output was $VAR1 = { '__a' => [ 'b' ] }; I was aspecting $VAR1 = { '_a' => [ 'b' ] }; What am I doing wrong? Marcos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>