#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More tests => 3; package CountHash; sub TIEHASH { my $class = shift; bless {}, $class; } sub FETCH { my ($self, $key) = @_; return unless exists $self->{$key}; return $self->{$key}; } sub STORE { my ($self, $key, $value) = @_; ($self->{$key} ||= 0 )++; } sub FIRSTKEY { my $self = shift; my $first = keys %$self; each %$self; } sub NEXTKEY { my $self = shift; each %$self; } package main; tie my %hash, 'CountHash'; my @items = ( 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5 ); @hash{ @items } = (); is( keys %hash, 5, 'CountHash should not store duplicate keys' ); is( $hash{1}, 1, '... counting individual keys once' ); is( $hash{3}, 3, '... multiple keys multiple times' );