perl -w -e 'use strict;my $t; if (scalar (keys %{$t->{r}})) {print "There are keys\n";} print "t->{r} = $t->{r}\n"; ' t->{r} = HASH(0x80fbc50) #### perl -w -e 'use strict;my $t = undef; my %p = %{$t->{r}}; print "t->{r} = $t->{r} "; '