Re: Counting matches and removing duplicates

my %counts;
while ( my $entity = ... )  {
   ++$counts{ $entity };
}

for my $entity ( sort keys( %counts ) ) {
   say "$entity $counts{ $entity }";
}
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Re^2: Counting matches and removing duplicates by LexPl (Beadle) on Nov 15, 2024 at 13:33 UTC
Many thanks for your input! I understand the two routines as such, but I don't understand how the different matching strings - all are XML entities - will be fed into the while loop. And to be honest; I didn't understand the suggestion about the hash solution	[reply]
Re^3: Counting matches and removing duplicates by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 15, 2024 at 19:24 UTC
It represents the existing loop you are using to discover the entities.	[reply]