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Hello Monks,

What is the most elegant way to combine two hashes by reference? I basically want to do this:

$x = { foo => "abc" }; $x .= { bar => "def", baz => "ghi" }; # I want $x to be: # { foo => "abc", bar => "def", baz => "ghi" }

Obviously, the concatenation operator won't have the desired effect.

And I know I can manually concatenate the two hashes, with, say:

my $temp = { bar => "def", baz => "ghi" }; foreach my $key (keys %$temp) { $x->{$key} = $temp->{$key}; }

Overwriting values is expected and OK in my application.

However, is there a more elegant (and time/memory efficient) solution?

The hash refs are a return from a function. I want to concatenate the return from successive calls.

Update: Thanks for the good ideas! It turns out it is cleaner for me to just pass the reference to my helper functions, and let them modify it. I was trying to avoid the extra parameter, but looks like that will be the easiest to maintain in this case.


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