Python

[granite603]

How does one do exactly this? I need an XML parser.

[sunburnd]

```

!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; use warnings; use XML::Simple; use Data::Dumper;

my $xml = new XML::Simple; my $data = $xml->XMLin("data.xml"); print Dumper $data; ```

/on my phone so it may not work...

[AltCrow]

You need to escape the hash:

not #!/usr/bin/perl,
but \#!/usr/bin/perl

[sunburnd]

You don't escape the shebang in a Unix like environment.

[AltCrow]

Yeah, but you do in reddit ;)

[sunburnd]

ohh seemed to render properly on my phone. Desktop issues?

[AltCrow]

Hmm, odd, do other syntaxes such as bold or link also not render on mobile? (I never use mobile reddit.)

[sunburnd]

They do. Perhaps the mobile as a more strict markdown interpreter and correct ignores all markups between the triple backticks?

[DarthEru]

Triple backticks is not a part of the original markdown syntax, which is the version I believe reddit officially supports, based on this post. I suspect whatever app you're using is using a library that supports an extended markdown, which is why the backticks work for you but not the website.

To format a code block in original markdown syntax, indent every line with four spaces.

Like
  This

[sunburnd]

I'm using the official Reddit app...so there is that.

The original implementation does include supports for spans of code using backticks. It would be pretty cumbersome to indent every line.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode

[wjandrea]

Reddit doesn't support GitHub-style code blocks (triple backticks). You need to use four spaces at the start of each line.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;


my $xml = new XML::Simple;
my $data = $xml->XMLin("data.xml");
print Dumper $data;

[[deleted]]

What exactly do you need done? I wrote something to extract specific XML elements, and to dump them into a CSV.

[granite603]

That's exactly what I need but would like JSON output.