Hi fellow monks, I'm looking for a solution to join together all the second-level keys from a hash constructed like that :

%replaces = 
{ "foo"
   => ( 'W100' => 'W102',
        'W101' => 'W103',
		...),
"bar"
   => ( 'W120' => 'W99',
        'W121' => 'W104',
		...),
... }

For instance, the hash shown below should led to the string W100|W101|W120|W121. Would it be possible to find a one-liner expression, or at least, a graceful piece of code to perform this ? I tried this :

my $expr = join '|', keys(%{$replaces{$_}}) foreach keys(%replaces);

But $expr remains undefined after this line. I ended up hardcoding the expecting first-level values for the current run, but it's a dirty solution :

my $expr = join '|', (keys(%{$replaces{'foo'}}), keys(%{$replaces{'bar'}}));

Thanks for any help on that !

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