#! perl use strict; use warnings; use constant SORT_BY_X => 1; my (%data, %y_values); while () { my ($x, $y) = split; $x = sprintf "%.2f", $x; $y = sprintf "%.2f", $y; push @{ $data{$x} }, $y; ++$y_values{$y}; } my @x = sort { $a <=> $b } keys %data; my @y = sort { $a <=> $b } keys %y_values; print "--------------\n"; print " X Y Z\n"; print "--------------\n"; if (SORT_BY_X) { for my $x (@x) { tally($x, $_) for @y; } } else # sort by y { for my $y (@y) { tally($_, $y) for @x; } } print "--------------\n"; sub tally { my ($x, $y) = @_; my $count = 0; for (@{ $data{$x} }) { ++$count if $_ == $y; } printf "%5.2f %5.2f %2d\n", $x, $y, $count; } __DATA__ 0.1234567890 1.2345678901 52.2456789012 17.2345678901 0.1234567890 1.2345678901 22.3456789012 3.4567890123 22.35 1.234