Looking at the contents of /proc/net/tcp it appears to be a formatted report. Personally I would first do a sanity check that I know what the header line is (makes porting the code later easier) then just extract substrings using substr or unpack and do hash lookups for the action. Much more efficient than looping. 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
@tcp_status = `cat /proc/net/tcp`;
unless (" st " eq substr($tcp_status[0], 33, 4) and
        " rem_address   " eq substr($tcp_status[0],19, 15)) {
    die "/proc/net/tcp has an unexpected format";
}
my %service = qw(
    0050    www
    0016    ssh
    1A0B    irc
    0015    ftp
);
my %count = map {($_, 0)} values %service;
foreach my $line (@tcp_status) {
    if ("01" eq substr($line, 34, 2)) {
        my $serv_code = substr($line, 29, 4);
        if (exists $service{$serv_code}) {
            ++$count{$service{$serv_code}};
        }
    }
}
# Finish as Tye did

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In reply to Re (tilly) 1: efficiency & style by tilly
in thread efficiency & style by djw

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