Re: hash undef?

[moritz]

if (not defined $time{$recordNumber}){
  ...
}

You can also check with exists in hashes, the semantic is a little bit different.

Update: A bit explanation: == compares numbers, so in the expression $foo == undef the undef is promoted to 0 and compared with $foo - not what you want.

[Anonymous Monk]

examples:

perl -wMstrict -e "my %hash = (foo => 'x',  bar => '',  baz => undef);
for (qw/foo bar baz quux/) {
    printf qq($_ exists:%s:  $_ defined:%s:  $_ true:%s: \n),
    exists($hash{$_}), defined($hash{$_}), $hash{$_} ? 1 : ''
    }"
foo exists:1:  foo defined:1:  foo true:1:
bar exists:1:  bar defined:1:  bar true::
baz exists:1:  baz defined::  baz true::
quux exists::  quux defined::  quux true::