Hi, Thank you all for the support.It helped me a lot.i tried working with arrays as well as with hash.Both the approaches works fine in the case of a small array with few elements. When i tried the same for a large array , i started getting "out of memory" error. Any suggestions would be of great help.
Thanks again, Regards Ashwin Thayyullathil Surendran ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ashwin ts <ashwint...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:17 PM Subject: help with array elements To: beginners@perl.org Hi, I am a newbie to perl. I have an array which has few elements like '1,2,3,4,2,3,1,2,1,1,1,4,6,7' i need to know how many times each element has occurred in the same array. for example 1-5 times 2-3 times... could some one throw some light on how i can do this. thanks in advance.. Regards Ashwin Thayyullathil Surendran