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Bjørn Erik Pedersen
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title: merge
description: "`merge` deep merges two maps and returns the resulting map."
description: "Returns the result of merging two or more maps."
date: 2019-08-08
categories: [functions]
menu:
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aliases: []
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Merge creates a copy of the final `MAP` and merges any preceding `MAP` into it in reverse order.
Returns the result of merging two or more maps from left to right. If a key already exists, `merge` updates its value. If a key is absent, `merge` inserts the value under the new key.
Key handling is case-insensitive.
An example merging two maps.
The following examples use these map definitions:
```go-html-template
{{ $default_params := dict "color" "blue" "width" "50%" "height" "25%" "icon" "star" }}
{{ $user_params := dict "color" "red" "icon" "mail" "extra" (dict "duration" 2) }}
{{ $params := merge $default_params $user_params }}
{{ $m1 := dict "x" "foo" }}
{{ $m2 := dict "x" "bar" "y" "wibble" }}
{{ $m3 := dict "x" "baz" "y" "wobble" "z" (dict "a" "huey") }}
```
Resulting __$params__:
Example 1
```go-html-template
{{ $merged := merge $m1 $m2 $m3 }}
{{ $merged.x }} --> baz
{{ $merged.y }} --> wobble
{{ $merged.z.a }} --> huey
```
"color": "red"
"extra":
"duration": 2
"height": "25%"
"icon": "mail"
"width": "50%"
Example 2
```go-html-template
{{ $merged := merge $m3 $m2 $m1 }}
{{ $merged.x }} --> foo
{{ $merged.y }} --> wibble
{{ $merged.z.a }} --> huey
```
Example 3
```go-html-template
{{ $merged := merge $m2 $m3 $m1 }}
{{ $merged.x }} --> foo
{{ $merged.y }} --> wobble
{{ $merged.z.a }} --> huey
```
Example 4
```go-html-template
{{ $merged := merge $m1 $m3 $m2 }}
{{ $merged.x }} --> bar
{{ $merged.y }} --> wibble
{{ $merged.z.a }} --> huey
```
{{% note %}}
Regardless of depth, merging only applies to maps. For slices, use [append]({{< ref "functions/append" >}})
Regardless of depth, merging only applies to maps. For slices, use [append]({{< ref "functions/append" >}}).
{{% /note %}}