#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my %data; while () { chomp; my ($number, $value) = split; $data{number}{$number}{value}{$value}{metric1}||=0; $data{number}{$number}{value}{$value}{metric1}++; } foreach my $n (keys %{$data{number}}) { foreach my $v (keys %{$data{number}{$n}{value}}) { print $v." (".$data{number}{$n}{value}{$v}{metric1}." times)\n"; } } __DATA__ 1 AAA 2 BBB 3 CCC 4 DDD 2 EEE 2 EEE