Somewhat of a newbie question. Is there a way to test to see if a certain key/value combination exists in a hash WITHOUT looping through it? Perhaps something like the following only that tests for the existance of the key/value pair instead of only the key.

if (exists($file_hash{$file_name})) {
# do something
}else{
# do someting else
}


In other words, I have a new key/value pair and I want to see if that combination already exists in a hash. If it doesn't, I want to add it. If it does, I want to add it to another hash. I really don't want a loop since I will be repeating this process so many times.

Thanks in advance.

In reply to Testing for key/value match by Anonymous Monk

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