I have two arrays of numbers, I want to removed a number (in this case 2) from the first and second arrays and replace it with a number from the second array with out duplicating numbers in the first array. Here is my attempt, though it's not working: 
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; 
my @array1 = (1,2,3); 
my @array2 = (1,2,3,4,5); 
my %hash; my %hash2; @hash{@array1} = @array1; 
@hash2{@array2} = @array2; 
# get initial length my $len = keys %hash; 
# remove the unwanted "value" 
my $old = delete $hash{2}; 
my $old2 = delete $hash2{2}; 
# insert a new one 
foreach my $x (@array2) { 
next if ($x == $old); 
$hash{$x} = undef; 
last if (keys %hash == $len); 
} 
@array1 = keys %hash;
foreach my $yy (@array1){ print "##".$array1$[yy]."##\n"; }

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