Note also the use of exists instead of defined; when using exists, we avoid having to initialize all the entries in the hash.
Originally, I thought exists was the correct operator and
indeed it would be given your assumption that only keys with values need to be inserted into the hash. Since I'm a simple and lazy guy, I thought that the values would all be retrieved
from an SQL table. If so, the most naive way to handle row data is simply to retrieve the data as a hash. The method of populating the %total hash is pure speculation on my part and surely one could carefully create the hash so that only
those keys with values would be inserted. In this case (your case), your solution is superior. Your code may be a little
terse for some (although I find the second form of your solution titillating -- using the trigraph operator to select the lvalue is uncommon (because I've never used ALGOL)).
Thank you for your kind words about my post, but be advised that you are only encouraging me to post more. ;-)
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