Data::Compare is very good, but I used FreezeThaw with its cmpStrHard method---it takes two distinct entities and compares them as a group. The way that I did it, I could slice, dice and ignore only the 2nd element, but that works out to be an exercise in futility. FreezeThaw will report that the groups are different in spite of ignoring that 2nd element. Here's what I tried: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use FreezeThaw qw(cmpStrHard);

my %a;
my %b;
%a = %b = (
    'this' => 'FOO',
    more   => [ 'one', 'two' ],
    'that' => 'FOO',
    more   => [ 'one', 'three' ]
);
$a{MORE} = \%b;
$b{MORE} = \%a;

printf "a and b contain %s hashes\n",
  cmpStrHard( \%a, \%b ) == 0 ? "the same" : "different";

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In reply to Re: Compare Data by Khen1950fx
in thread Compare Data by Anonymous Monk

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