Ok I tried your code and of course you are right. I changed it so it will return the count of THE VALUES of the array in the file, but the strings have to be on their own lines (as you said). Since the string we're using is the VALUE, it prints the VALUE not the KEY at the end.

I guess I will have to research regex and see what I can do. Just for grins I've attached the code and result. To test it I had to create a file with the exe strings on their own lines.

Thanks again for the help.

Code:

open (FILE, "security2.txt");

print "\n";

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

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

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

close(FILE);

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Result:

Name: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE  Count: 2
Name: D:\crime\Reader\AcroRd32.exe  Count: 1

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

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