I'm working on this exercise to print out from a hash table. However, when I have an undefined value or a 'blank' value I don't want to print that out. Below is my code:

###################################################
##                                                #
##   6/2/20                                       #
##   Program prints out a report out of birthdays #
##   hash table only if name AND birthday exist   # 
##   in hash                                      #
##                                                #
###################################################


   my %birthdays = (
                     Fred   => 'June 1',
                     Ray    => 'May 31',
                     Glenn  => 'May 27',
                     Bob    => 'August 28',
                     Jim    => '',
                     Paul   => undef,
                   );

   print"\nName         Birthday\n";
   print "-" x 25 ."\n";

   foreach my $name ( keys %birthdays) {
       if (exists $birthdays{$name} ) {
          print " $name        $birthdays{$name}\n";
       }
   }

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TIA The catfish

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