I am trying to print out the members of a multidimensional associative array according to their popularity. Assume, for example, that my array is built using the following data: 
$my_associative_array{"Key1"}=[qw(a b b b a a c d b d b)];
$my_associative_array{"Key2"}=[qw(c a b a b d c c d d d e f)];

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I am trying to get output such as follows:

Key1:
b = 5
a = 3
d = 2
c = 1

Key2:
d = 4
c = 3
a = 2
b = 2
e = 1
f = 1

As you can see, the output is sorted according to the number of times the data appears in the array. I'm sure this is probably easy for some of you perl guru's out there, but I sure am strugling with it. Any help is most appreciated. And by the way, what a wonderful site!

edited: Sat Aug 3 02:30:33 2002 by jeffa - code tags

In reply to Finding most popular order in a multidimensional associative array by Anonymous Monk

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