N01A0000.f BG1_c22 N01A000X.f BG1_c5 N01A000X.r BG1_c5 N01A002B.f BG1_c38 N01A002B.r BG1_c38 N01A0082.r BG1_c12 N01A00AS.f BG1_c52 N01A00B9.f BG1_c45 N01A00B9.r BG1_c45 N01A00DK.f BG1_c5 N01A00F0.f BG1_c22 N01A00F0.r BG1_c22 N01A00F3.f BG1_c14 N01A00FX.f BG1_c7 N01A00FX.r BG1_c7 #### open(FILE,"/Downloads/samplefile.txt") or die $!; while(){ $_=~s/\s+//g; push(@array1,$_); } close(FILE); #@array1= qw(hi bye hi see u later); my %s = (); $s{$_}++ for @array1; for my $value ( keys %s ) { print "\n".$s{$value}."\n"; if ($s{$value} > 1){ $v=$value; } if($value eq $v){ delete $s{$value}; } else{ print "$value"; } }