Re: Testing Hash with empty value in HoH

a reference to an empty hash is a true value.

Use values on scalar context to get the number of elements on the hash:

foreach my $k ( keys %{$hoh} ) 
{

    if( $hoh->{$k} and values %{$hoh->{$k}}) 
    {
       print "$k\n";
    };
    
}
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updated following Limbic~Region advice.

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Re^2: Testing Hash with empty value in HoH by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jun 15, 2005 at 12:40 UTC
salva, I agree with what you have said and how you have used your code, but for clarity believe you should add in scalar context. It may not be obvious to someone unfamiliar with Perl's DWYMery that in list context you get the list of values and in scalar context you only get the count. Cheers - L~R	[reply]