Given a two dimensional hash, is there a way to return
the number of subkeys from that hash WITHOUT LOOPING?
Key and subkey names are variable lvalues. Key hashes may
contain any number of subkeys or none at all (null):
%hash = (
  key1 => {
    subkey1 => value1,
    subkey2 => value2,
    ...
  },
  key2 => {
  },
  key3 => {
    subkey1 => value1,
  },
  ...
);

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What I'm looking (hoping) for is something like: "scalar subkeys %hash".

Grazie mille!
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In reply to scalar subkeys %hash ? by crazysniffable

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