{ 'key' => 'value' } # should be 7

Should be 8, shouldn't it? Anyway, you can take advantage of the fact that a hash in list context evaluates to the key/value pairs.

my $hashref = { 'key' => 'value' };

my $sum1 = 0;
$sum1 += length for %$hashref;
# - or -
my $sum2 = length join '', %$hashref;
# - or -
use List::Util qw/sum/;
my $sum3 = sum map {length} %$hashref;

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I suspect the first of these will be most efficient since it doesn't build an intermediate string or list - Update: at least, I think it doesn't; I hope for %hash is optimized to use an iterator, but I'm not certain at the moment. If you wanted to play it super safe:

my $sum4 = 0;
while ( my ($k, $v) = each %$hashref )
    { $sum4 += length($k) + length($v) }

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In reply to Re: Get total number of characters in a hash (not memory usage) by haukex
in thread Get total number of characters in a hash (not memory usage) by TieUpYourCamel

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