"US" $countries{"US"} "DE" $countries{"DE"} "RU" $countries{"RU"} "UK" $countries{"UK"} "FR" $countries{"FR"} #### my %countries; while (){ my $entry = (split /","/, $_)[1]; $countries{$entry}++; } for (reverse sort { $countries{$a} <=> $countries{$b} } keys %countries){ print "$_\t$countries{$_}\n"; }