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get size of hash in perl

April 24th, 2007 by Lawrence David

getting the size of a hash is slightly non-intuitive in perl:

print “my hash size is: ” . keys(%my_hash);

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One Response to “get size of hash in perl”

1. on 04 Aug 2008 at 3:11 pm   Marx0r

   Didn’t know _that_ would work. I would have used scalar(keys(%my_hash)) in that case.