Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> I have an array with values like:
> my @array=("aaa", "aaa", "bbb", "bbb", "aaa", "ccc", "aaa", "bbb", "ccc",
> ....);
>
> I want to count how many "aaa" and how many "bbb" and how many "ccc" and
how
> many "..." I have in that array.I would like to
> have a hash with something like:
>
> %hash=(
> aaa => 33,
> bbb => 31,
> ccc => 6,
> XXX => yyy
> );
>
> I have tried using foreach $item(@array) {
> .... and here to increase a counter, but finally, I couldn't solve it.
You're on the right track. Try something like this:
my @array=("aaa", "aaa", "bbb", "bbb", "aaa", "ccc", "aaa", "bbb", "ccc")
my %hash;
foreach my $item (@array){
$hash{$item}++;
}
Tagore Smith
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