I thought deep copy of hash of hash would work, but when I modify the originla hash %x, the deep copy %y is modified too. What do i did wrong ?
my %x= ('miller'=> {'lastname' => 'michael','tel'=>'222'}, 'duran' => {'lastname'=> 'peggy', 'tel' => '333'}, ); print "--Original hash \n"; for my $nom (keys %x) { print "nom: ", $nom, " "; for my $val (keys %{$x{$nom}} ) { print $val, ": ", $x{$nom}{$val}, " "; } print"\n"; } my $y= {%x}; #anonymous hash ref containg data freom %x # #modifying $x shouldn't affects $y ?? # $x{'duran'}{'tel'}='888'; print "--Deep copy of Original hash \n"; #notice how to dereference $y !! for my $nom (keys (%$y)) { print "nom: ", $nom, " "; for my $val (keys %{@$y{$nom}}) { print $val, ": ", $y->{$nom}{$val}, " "; } print "\n"; } </h3>
And the code prints this (unexpected) :
--Original hash nom: miller lastname: michael tel: 222 nom: duran tel: 333 lastname: peggy --Deep copy of Original hash nom: duran tel: 888 lastname: peggy nom: miller lastname: michael tel: 222
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