Ugh. You didn't say if the values appear on the lines of the file by themselves, or if they are contained inside a larger string.

Also, you want to count several things, but you have your count as a single scalar value. That's not going to work.

If the values appear alone, you could do something like 

while (<FILE>) {
  chomp;
  foreach $key (keys %exe) {
    $count{$_}++ if ($_ eq $key); 
  }
}

foreach $key (keys %exe) {
  print "Name:$key\t Count:$count{$key}\n";
}

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Note that I've made count into a hash with the same keys as %exe, and that I've exchanged == (numeric equality) with eq (string equality).

If the strings you're looking for aren't the only thing in each line you read, you'd better use index or a regex to find them - string comparison won't work.

In reply to Re: Help - Counting text - Associative Array? by matija
in thread Help - Counting text - Associative Array? by Anonymous Monk

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