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Asked: 2026-06-08T14:20:11+00:00

I have an XML response from a URL that is being converted into an

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I have an XML response from a URL that is being converted into an array of hashes which looks like:

{
  "EmployeeList"=>{
    "EmployeeProfile"=>{
      "BuildLoc"=>{"$"=>"1 Happy Place"},
      "Status"=>{"$"=>"A"},
      "SecrTitle"=>[{}, {}],
      "ID"=>{},
      "bct"=>{},
      "NUM"=>{"$"=>"1234567"},
      "BuildCity"=>{"$"=>"Dayton"},
      "BuildFloor"=>{"$"=>"6"},
      "Expense"=>{"$"=>"1345"},
      "LastName"=>{"$"=>"Smith"},
      "Middle"=>{},
      "SecrName"=>[{}, {}],
      "InternalSMTPAddress"=>{"$"=>"Joe.Smith@happy.com"},
      "IAddress"=>{"$"=>"Joe.Smith@happy.com"},
      "PreferredLastName"=>{},
      "DisplayName"=>{"$"=>"Joe Smith"},
      "CellPhoneNo"=>{},
      "Title"=>{"$"=>"Dr."},
      "BuildStreetAddress"=>{"$"=>"123 Happy town"},
      "BuildState"=>{"$"=>"IL"},
      "FirstName"=>{"$"=>"Joe"},
      "AltContactTitle1"=>{},
      "Dept-CostCtrNo"=>{"$"=>"129923"},
      "PreferredFirstName"=>{"$"=>"Joe"},
      "AltContactName2"=>{},
      "AltContactPhone2"=>{},
      "GDP"=>{},
      "BuildZip"=>{"$"=>"112345"},
      "RegionID"=>{"$"=>"NAMR"},
      "EmploymentType"=>{"$"=>"E"},
      "TempPhone"=>{},
      "BuildID"=>{"$"=>"01114"},
      "CountryAbbr"=>{"$"=>"USA"},
      "FaxDisp1"=>{},
      "BuildCountry"=>{"$"=>"United States"}
    }
  },
  nil=>nil
}

What’s the easiest way to extract the value of “DisplayName” and “InternalSMTPAddress“?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you assign the returned hash to a variable named “hash” you can access the two desired values for those keys like:

    hash['EmployeeList']['EmployeeProfile']['DisplayName']
=> {"$"=>"Joe Smith"}

    and

    hash['EmployeeList']['EmployeeProfile']['InternalSMTPAddress']
=> {"$"=>"Joe.Smith@happy.com"}

    If you want the actual data in them add a trailing ['$']:

    hash['EmployeeList']['EmployeeProfile']['DisplayName']['$']
=> "Joe Smith"

hash['EmployeeList']['EmployeeProfile']['InternalSMTPAddress']['$']
=> "Joe.Smith@happy.com"
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