in reply to how to merge hash deeply ?

This is covered by How do I merge two hashes? in perlfaq4.

Hope that helps,

Update: Thanks to davido for pointing out that the FAQ cited doesn’t cover deep copying. Use the Hash::Merge solution by Kenosis for this.

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