Thanks. I had actually read that sentence but had 'misunderstood' it - thinking of it only in the foreach loop context and not realizing the same thing applies in a non-loop. By the way, your analogy was really helpful.

If I am now understanding the sentence correctly, I can do something like the following:

 ($key, $value) = each %hashCache || each %hashCache;

Presumably this would 'eat' the 'undef' token and make the lazy-a** conductor go back to the front of the bus and start collecting tickets again :)

In reply to Re^2: Using 'each' to get random (key, value) pair from hash returns "uninitialized value" by puterboy
in thread Using 'each' to get random (key, value) pair from hash returns "uninitialized value" by puterboy

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