I think the easiest way would be to use a hash - something like this?
Oops - just realised this doesn't handle the case where the 3rd field is a duplicate - in fact it doesn't worry about the 3rd field at all. guha has supplied some modifed code, which I've used to replace my slightly dodgy stuff!
#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
my ($type, $desc, %fruit);
open (FH, "y") || die "Cannot find file";
while (<FH>) {
(undef, $type, $desc) = split /:/;
$fruit{$type}{$desc}++;
}
close FH;
foreach my $type (keys(%fruit)) {
print "$type : ",scalar keys %{ $fruit{$type} }, "\n";
}
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