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in thread Using grep to pick out Specific lines in a text file

Guess what! That's what $found{$1}++ is for. Just print not only the keys but also the values of hash %found.

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Re^6: Using grep to pick out Specific lines in a text file
by itguy87 (Novice) on Apr 17, 2013 at 20:08 UTC

    That is what i thought but i was working with it and cuold not make it produce what i wanted

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      Instead of 

      print join( "|", keys %found), "\n";

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      try 

      for my $key (keys %found) (
  print "$key: $found{$key}\n";
}

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        added that and it comes back blank

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