It is with great reluctance (and hope) that I post such a basic problem.

So far I have only been able to find bits and pieces on this and when I put the bits together they do not work. Maybe I am going in the wrong direction.

I want to count several strings of text in a file (security.txt) and output the counts with a brief description of each. I have tried specifying the descriptions (name) and the strings (exe) in the array within the perl script. I can open the file to search ok, but the counting/output doesn't work. It seems to count every line in the file. The strings are not on their own lines in security.txt.

The goal is to see something like:

Name: Catalog  Count:2
Name: Crime  Count:1

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Yes I am a newb, so if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd sure appreciate it. TIA, Sam 
print "\nSEARCHING...\n";

open (FILE, "security.txt");

print "\n";


###### Define names and their file paths ######

%exe = ( "Catalog", 'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE',
"Crime", 'D:\crime\Reader\AcroRd32.exe');

###### Try to count the occurance of file paths ######

$count=0;

while(<FILE>) {

chomp;

  #if ($_ = (values %exe)) {
    $count++;
}

###### print names and counts #######

foreach $key (keys %exe) {

print "Name: $key\t Count: $count\n";

}

close(FILE);

print "\nDONE.\n";

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In reply to Help - Counting text - Associative Array? by Anonymous Monk

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