Confused by Perl grep function

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Published on 2010-04-15T05:10:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 5:23 UTC
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I don't understand the last line of this function from Programming Perl 3e.

Here's how you might write a function that does a kind of set intersection by returning a list of keys occurring in all the hashes passed to it:

@common = inter( \%foo, \%bar, \%joe );
sub inter {
  my %seen;
  for my $href (@_) {
    while (my $k = each %$href) {
      $seen{$k}++;
    }
  }
  return grep { $seen{$_} == @_ } keys %seen;
}

I understand that %seen is a hash which maps each key to the number of times it was encountered in any of the hashes provided to the function.

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