Hello NisSam, and welcome to the Monastery!

Further to hippo’s answer, I just want to point out that even using exists doesn’t ensure that autovivification won’t occur:

 0:33 >perl -Mstrict -MData::Dump -wE "my %h = (A => 'a'); if (exists 
+$h{B}{C}) { say 'yes'; }; dd %h;"
("B", {}, "A", "a")

 0:33 >perl -Mstrict -MData::Dump -wE "no autovivification; my %h = (A
+ => 'a'); if (exists $h{B}{C}) { say 'yes'; }; dd %h;"
("A", "a")

 0:33 >

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— as explained in the documentation for the exists function. So, as hippo says, using no autovivification; is the safest option.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Are defined or // guaranteed not to autovivify? by Athanasius
in thread Are defined or // garantee not to autovivify? by NisSam

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