Re: Counting the elements of an array

2002-05-18 Thread Tagore Smith
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 s

Counting the elements of an array

2002-05-18 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, 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 =>