Re: Initialization of hash element....

Yes, undef gets treated as 0. Actually you can use += to make it even more succinct:

$myhash{$key} += 1;
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Re^2: Initialization of hash element.... by blazar (Canon) on Jun 01, 2007 at 11:51 UTC
`$myhash{$key} += 1;` [download] What's of `$myhash{$key}++; # ? ;-)` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]