Re^2: Getting Matching Items From An Array

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exists still autovivifies in some situations:

use Data::Dumper;
my %h = ( foo => 1 );
print "Exists" if exists $h{bar}[2];
print Data::Dumper::Dumper \%h;

__END__
$VAR1 = {
          'bar' => [],
          'foo' => 1
        };
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Which probably isn't the right thing to do.

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Re^3: Getting Matching Items From An Array by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Jul 21, 2004 at 20:21 UTC
It should only autoviv that array element if the hash key is already defined IMHO... Grygonos	[reply]

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