Hi monks, not sure if i explained my problem clearly enough, sorry! anyway i'll show you what i've done and it might make it easier to correct me. i am trying to count every number in $array[0] (shown below); all of the same numbers are the same thing (eg all the 1's are the same), i just need to know which occurs the most. i have tried counting every number etc but i cant seem to find which is the most frequent, i just get the number of numbers present returned to me. hope someone can help. 
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1
1
1
2
2
3
4
4
4

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i want the number which occurs the most to be ranked at the top of the output (only one of each number needs to be ranked) 
e.g
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4
2
3

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n.b 

#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $num_of_params;

$num_of_params = @ARGV;

if ($num_of_params < 2)
{
die ("\n You haven't entered enough parameters !! \n\n");
}

open (FILE, $ARGV[0]) or die "unable to open file";

open (OUTFILE, ">$ARGV[1]");

my $line;
my @array;
my $number;
my $count=0;

while (<FILE>)
{
        $line = $_;
        chomp ($line);

        @array = ();
        @array = split (/\s+/, $line);

 foreach $number ($array[0])
 {
 ++$count;
 print "$count\n";
 print OUTFILE "$count\n";

  if ($number != $number-1 )
  {
  print "$number\n";
  print OUTFILE "$number\n";
                                                
  }
 }
}

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