Well, since merlyn has given you an outline of the futility of the task you have set yourself ill throw you the solution to making your futility possible. ;-)

You need a hash. A hash is an associative array which means it associates a key with a value. Also there are some minor booboos in your code. Such as no strictures or warnings, no variable declarations and using .* when you shouldnt. Please read 


my %ips;  # This is a hash
while (<FILE>) { # Read em in
    $ips{$1}++ if (/^(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\s-\s-/); # no dot star
    # I make no promises that the above is a valid
    # IP  matcher. It will match IPs and other
    # things too..
}
foreach my $ip (keys %ips) { # Print em out
    print "IP $ip $ips{$ip}\n";
}

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HTH (at least on a functional level, on an intentional level I think you should listen to merlyn....)

Yves / DeMerphq
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In reply to Re: Unique visits - Webserver log parser by demerphq
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