in reply to Cloning shared hashref

What you are looking for is called a deep copy.   (Or, “deep cloning.”)

e.g. clone in Storable.

Hashes often contain references to things, and changing any one of the references changes the (one) thing to which it refers...

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Re^2: Cloning shared hashref
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 20, 2011 at 18:31 UTC
    1. If you'd bothered to look, you'd have realised that the sole purpose of Clone::clone() is to perform deep copies.
    2. If you'd looked at Storable, you'd have discovered that it doesn't export a routine called clone().
    3. And if you bothered to try dclone(), you'd have found that it produces exactly the same error.
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