> my @uniq = keys %{ {%hash1, %hash2} };
From inside out:
- First the two hashes are flattened to lists, which are combined to a long list.
- Building a new (anonymous) hashref will eliminate duplicated entries from that hash ¹
- To be able to extract² the keys you still need to dereference this ano-hashref with %{..}.
step by step:
DB<111> %hash1= (a=>1,b=>2)
=> ("a", 1, "b", 2)
DB<112> %hash2= (a=>1,c=>3)
=> ("a", 1, "c", 3)
DB<113> (%hash1, %hash2)
=> ("a", 1, "b", 2, "c", 3, "a", 1)
DB<115> + {%hash1, %hash2}
=> { a => 1, b => 2, c => 3 }
DB<117> %{ {%hash1, %hash2} }
=> ("c", 3, "a", 1, "b", 2)
DB<118> keys %{ {%hash1, %hash2} }
=> ("c", "a", "b")
UPDATES:
¹) because repeated keys will be overwritten.
²) at least with older perl-versions, see Athanasius' remark |