bart, thanks for the reply. grep is another one of those functions that I don't know well. Continuing on our theoretical tangent, if you will, could one golf your approach down to 
grep !defined, values %stats || last;

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as a quick and simple escape clause?

For some reason I like the idea of predeclaring what data I want (by mnemonic), and "filling" an empty data structure, as opposed to creating the key-value pairs on the fly. It's just mental I guess, though I suppose it may increase readability somewhat. Also, is there a memory or performance penalty if you don't predeclare the numer of elements in a hash? Returning the scalar of the hash gives me 4/8 with the predeclared version; I suppose I will try it the other way and report back.

Thanks again to everyone,
T.

I like computer programming because it's like Legos for the mind.

In reply to Re^2: How best to tell when my hash is "full" (all values defined)? by OfficeLinebacker
in thread How best to tell when my hash is "full" (all values defined)? by OfficeLinebacker

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