hi fellers !

how can I merge several hashes to one. suppose I have the following hashes:

%hash1 = (
          red => 1,
          brown => (
                    green => 1,
                    blue => (
                             yellow => 1,
                            ),
                    black => 1,
                   ),
          gray => 1,
         );

%hash2 = (
          white => 1,
          brown => (
                    purple => 1,
                   ),
         );
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I want to get in the end the following hash:

%mergedHash = (
               red => 1,
               gray => 1,
               white => 1,
               brown => (
                         green => 1,
                         purple => 1,
                         black => 1,
                         blue => (
                                  yellow => 1,
                                 ),
                        ),       
              );
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another thing, how can I do this if I have references of hashes (replace the brackets with curly ones in the example above)?

Thanks

Hotshot

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