Here's one way, although it does iterate over all three hashes twice. My brain hasn't quite kicked in yet this Monday morning, so I'm likely seriously overlooking a more efficient way to do it:

First, create a new temporary hash that has takes the count of keys, then using that new hash with the appropriate keys (the ones that have been counted at least three times), append the values from all three hashes into the new %combined hash:

use warnings;
use strict;

use Data::Dumper;

my $num_hashes = 3;

my %h1 = (
    a => 1,
    b => 2,
    c => 3,
);

my %h2 = (
    a => 4,
    b => 5,
    d => 10,
);

my %h3 = (
    x => 20,
    p => 15,
    b => 6,
    a => 12,
);

my %key_list;

for my $hash (\%h1, \%h2, \%h3){
    $key_list{$_}++ for keys %$hash;
}

my %combined;

for my $hash (\%h1, \%h2, \%h3){
    for (keys %key_list){
        next if $key_list{$_} < $num_hashes;
        push @{ $combined{$_} }, $hash->{$_};
    }
}

print Dumper \%combined;

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Output:

$VAR1 = {
          'b' => [
                   2,
                   5,
                   6
                 ],
          'a' => [
                   1,
                   4,
                   12
                 ]
        };

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In reply to Re: multiple hash compare, find, create by stevieb
in thread multiple hash compare, find, create by Anonymous Monk

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