#!/usr/bin/perl -slw use strict; use List::MoreUtils qw(uniq); my %count; my (@nums) = uniq 9.2.11, 9.2.11, 9.2.11, 9.4.11, 9.5.11; foreach my $num (@nums) { ++$count{$_} foreach (@nums); sleep 1; print $count{$num}; }