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in thread hash symbolic references

I'm an idiot! I just needed to verify a hash content as you stated and now I can use strict. Thank you!

if (ref $input{$number} eq 'HASH') {

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Re^3: hash symbolic references
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Jan 29, 2015 at 18:35 UTC

    Pay more attention to Eily's last paragraph because it is the most important thing to take away from that post. Don't roll your own JSON module for any purpose other than to learn how it works.