I got this example from the Data::Compare module. It works really great except that I would want it to ignore only the 2nd element in the hash key (FOO) which means I would want the module to still compare the first element of hash key (FOO). Is there a way to do this?

The reason why I like Data::Compare is that my data structure is more complex than this example which is why I am trying to stick with it. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Data::Compare;

my $h1 = { 'FOO' => [ 'one', 'two' ] };
my $h2 = { 'FOO' => [ 'one', 'three' ] };

print 'structures of $h1 and $h2 are ',
  Compare($h1, $h2, { ignore_hash_keys => [qw(FOO)] }) ? '' : 'not ',
  "close enough to identical.\n";

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