I have an hashref that has the following data.
$href = {
           'a'  => {
                     't' => {
                               'x' => {
                                         '2008-08-07' => 1
                                      }
                            }
                   }
            'b'  => {
                      'd' => {
                                'o' => {
                                          '2008-08-06' => 1
                                       }
                             }
                    }
        };

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and I have an array with the following data:
@array = ('a', 't', 'x', '2008-08-07');

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I know that I could see if $href->{a}->{t}->{x}->{2008-08-07} exists by just typing:

if (exists $href->{a}->{t}->{x}->{2008-08-07} ){
    print "href value exists";
}

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But that would be too statically hard encoded and manual.
I am trying to find a more elegant way to see if the hashref exists based on a dynamically generated @array values that aren't known yet.
That way I can generate the exists statement corresponding to whatever the array length and values are instead dynamically. Basically if the array turns out to be: 
@array2  = ('b', 't', 'm', 'p');

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I'd like to check if: 
$href->{b}->{t}->{m}->{p}

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exists without typing out "b, t, m, p".

In reply to checking if hashref value exists based on a dynamic array by jonathan415

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