in reply to Why does testing for the existence of hash keys create the keys ?

Could you change the title from being useless to "Understanding creation of missing keys" or similar?

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Re^2: I just want to understand why ...
by fshrewsb (Acolyte) on Oct 09, 2012 at 10:15 UTC

    Point taken about the title ! Thanks all. I had not encountered the term "autovivification" before. 

    no autovivification qw(exists);

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    should solve my problems without creating new ones !

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      Much appreciate the changed title.
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