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in reply to hash size

Not really AFAIC. You can shorten things sumwhat by calling keys in scalar context: 

%somehash = ( key1 => "value1",
              key2 => "value2",
              key3 => "value3,
              key4 => "value4",
             );
$size = keys %somehash;
print "This hash holds $size key-value pairs\n";

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