That's because the code %{$hash{'one'}} actually says to perl "take the hash key value stored in $hash{'one'} and pretend it is a hash reference". Since it isn't a hash reference, perl throws an error. Just remove the %{} from that if statement and your code will work the way you want it to.

Update: djantzen kindly pointed out what I overlooked - that you also have to remove the 'keys' command or perl will still throw an error. However this leads to a rather nice way to check for what you want: 

if ((eval"%{$hash{'one'}}")) {
    print "It's a hash\n";
}
else {
    print "It's not a hash\n";
}

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So it turns out there's more than one way to do it :)

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In reply to Re: Testing for hash key value by jepri
in thread Testing for hash key value by Anonymous Monk

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