In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Bethard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't speak Perl, but based on your output, I'd probably do something
> like:
>
> py> lines = ["1,2,3,4,5", "2,3,4,5", "3,4,5", "4,5", "5"]
> py> counts = {}
> py> for items in lines:
> ... for item in items.split(','):
> ... counts[item] = counts.get(item, 0) + 1
> ...
> py> for key in sorted(counts, key=counts.__getitem__, reverse=True):
> ... print 'Key: %s Frequency: %s' % (key, '*'*counts[key])
> ...
> Key: 5 Frequency: *****
> Key: 4 Frequency: ****
> Key: 3 Frequency: ***
> Key: 2 Frequency: **
> Key: 1 Frequency: *
>
> I'm probably missing a few subtleties, but hopefully this will get you
> started.
>
> STeVe
Thanks Steven. This helped a lot. Exactly what I was looking for
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