Just use the name of the hash in scalar context, such as

if (%foo) {
    # %foo has at least one key
} else {
    # %foo has no keys
}
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If you want to be very explicit, you can also write

if (!!%foo) { ... }
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if (scalar %foo) { ... }
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if (0+%foo) { ... }
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