delete local looks promising, thanks haukex and ikegami. If only delete returned the remaining hash. Shouldn't this work?: print Dumper(do { delete local  @$hashref{ @$bad_keys }, $hashref} ); or this print Dumper(do { delete local  @$hashref{ @$bad_keys }; $hashref} ); My intention is to delete the elements of the local hash, pass that to Dumper and hopefully leave it untouched when Dumper returns.

my @unwanted = qw( schema log );
my %hash = (schema=>1, log=>2, aa=>3);
print Dumper(delete local @hash{ @unwanted }, \%hash);
print Dumper(\%hash);

$VAR1 = 1;
$VAR2 = 2;
$VAR3 = {
          'aa' => 3
        };
$VAR1 = {
          'aa' => 3
        };

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my @unwanted = qw( schema log );
my %hash = (schema=>1, log=>2, aa=>3);
print Dumper(do { delete local @hash{ @unwanted }; \%hash });
print Dumper(\%hash);
$VAR1 = {
          'aa' => 3,
          'log' => 2,
          'schema' => 1
        };
$VAR1 = {
          'aa' => 3,
          'log' => 2,
          'schema' => 1
        };

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In reply to Re^3: Hash/Array slice : how to exclude items? by bliako
in thread Hash/Array slice : how to exclude items? by bliako

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