Hi Monks.This program is to count the repetitions of elements in an array.I wrote something with my rookie knowledge but not getting the expected output.Need your help


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @array=qw(John Sue Larry Mary John Mary Larry John Joe Lisa John Ma
+ry);
my $i;
my $lastindex=$#array;
my $count=0;
foreach (@array)
{
                      for($i=0;$i<=$lastindex;$i++)
                               {
                       if($_ eq $array[$i])
                                  {
                                     $count++;
                                  }
                                }
              print"$_ is repeated for $count times \n";
                  $count=0;
}

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This is my code and output is

John is repeated for 4 times

Sue is repeated for 1 times

Larry is rep......for 2 times

Mary is rep........for 3 times

John is rep.........for 4 times

Mary is rep..........for 3 times

It went so on for each element.My question is how to delete the redundancy of elements.Where can i improve this program.Thanks for your time

In reply to Required guidance to simplify this program by vyeddula

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