This is probably pretty simple, but my brain can't seem to come up with a solution and my O'Reily Books are inacessable at the moment.

I have a pipe delineated list of the type
name_x|score|date name_y|score|date name_y|score|date name_z|score|date etc...
and I need to be able to count how many times each name appears in the file so that my output would look something like
name_x = 1 name_y = 2 name_z = 1



I can't even come up with any good search keywords for this (so I can look for past answers and not have to bother anyone). Any help is appreciated.

In reply to Counting incidents of names in a file by Bishma

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