On 2007-04-24 13:17:37 +0200, Brian Candler <B.Candler / pobox.com> said: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:45:04PM +0900, Josselin wrote: >> I receive from yahoo weather an Hash like this one, >> >> response >> => {"xmlns:geo"=>"http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#", >> "xmlns:yweather"=>"http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0", >> "version"=>"2.0", "channel"=>[{"title"=>["Yahoo! Weather - Error"], >> "description"=>["Yahoo! Weather Error"], "item"=>[{"title"=>["City not >> found"], "description"=>["\n Sorry, your location 'dfghh' was not >> found. Please try again.\n "]}]}]} >> >> I need to test the response for an error on channel title, I wrote : >> >> (response.fetch("channel")[0]).fetch("title")[0] >> => "Yahoo! Weather - Error" >> >> to get the string, but is there any simpler way to do it ? > > response["channel"][0]["title"][0] > > or: > > response["channel"].first["title"].first > > But it also depends on how you are parsing the XML. If you're using > xmlsimple then you can pass option 'ForceArray' => false, which gets rid of > the arrays. Then you can do > > response["channel"]["title"] thanks a lot Brian, that's exactly what I am using... so .. simple ! joss