I like Grandfather's solution. Mine reads the records into a temporary structure, only to then later get the unique species and associate the dna and morph strings. Mine also had hardcoded the length of the output part (dna or morph), but I did that since I wasn't sure if they were a fixed length or if they could be variable. Easily handled as Grandfather does in his program. 
# Read in DNA file (file.1)
my %dna = ();
open my $file1, "<", "./file.1"
        or die "Can't open file.1: $!";
while (<$file1>) {
        chomp;
        next if $. == 1;
        my ($key, $val) = split /\s+/;
        $dna{$key} = $val;
}

# Read in MORPH file (file.2)
my %morph = ();
open my $file2, "<", "./file.2"
        or die "Can't open file.2: $!";
while (<$file2>) {
        chomp;
        next if $. == 1;
        my ($key, $val) = split /\s+/;
        $morph{$key} = $val;
}

# Get sorted, unique keys from above
my %allkeys = map { $_ => 1 } (sort keys %dna, sort keys %morph);
my @uniq_species = sort keys %allkeys;

my %records = ();
foreach (@uniq_species) {
        $records{$_}  = (defined $dna{$_})   ? $dna{$_}   : "?"x14;
        $records{$_} .= (defined $morph{$_}) ? $morph{$_} : "?"x18;
}

foreach (sort keys %records) {
        print "$_ $records{$_}\n";
}

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In reply to Re: Combining hashes of hahses? by tuxz0r
in thread Combining hashes of hahses? by erio

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