G'day Sosi,

Parsing tab-, comma-, whatever-separated files has various issues that have already been dealt with by Text::CSV [see also: Text::CSV_XS and Text::CSV_PP]. This is probably not a wheel you need to reinvent: I've shown usage of Text::CSV in the example code (below).

Your output data structure is flawed. You have instances of this general code: 

    X => { count => n, [ ... ] }

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You have three elements in the hashref, which is a problem: key/values pairs result in an even number of elements. That generates an "Odd number of elements in anonymous hash" warning.

In the example code (below), I've added a "values" key for both the arrayref (i.e. the third element) and the top-level key. 

    X => { count => n, values => [ ... ] }

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Here's the example code: 

#!/usr/bin/env perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

use Text::CSV;

my $csv = Text::CSV::->new({sep_char => "\t"});
my %data;

while (my $row = $csv->getline(\*DATA)) {
    ++$data{$row->[0]}{count};
    ++$data{$row->[0]}{values}{$row->[1]}{count};
    push @{$data{$row->[0]}{values}{$row->[1]}{values}}, $row->[2];
}

use Data::Dump;
dd \%data;

__DATA__
A   B   n1
A   B   n2
A   C   n1
D   E   n2
D   E   n4
D   F   n1

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Which outputs: 

{
  A => {
         count  => 3,
         values => {
                     B => { count => 2, values => ["n1", "n2"] },
                     C => { count => 1, values => ["n1"] },
                   },
       },
  D => {
         count  => 3,
         values => {
                     E => { count => 2, values => ["n2", "n4"] },
                     F => { count => 1, values => ["n1"] },
                   },
       },
}

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: Count number of elements in HoH and sum them for other keys by kcott
in thread Count number of elements in HoH and sum them for other keys by Sosi

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