Hi monks,
I ask this question before, but I guess I wasn't clear about what I wanted to ask.
All started when I needed to parse a log file that looks like that:
Company Name*345467*YW34567c*activitype*04/15/2004*11:34:10*123456789*
+1
Company Name Other*345467*YW34567c*activitype*04/15/2004*11:34:10*1234
+56789*3

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Course many more lines will be there.
I am tring to parse the log files here and running into problems where I can't display the name of the element I am looping trough, but I can print the number of times it shows on the file. Here is the code, let me know please, where the problem is. 
foreach (<LOGFILE>){

 if (/^(.*?)*(.*?)*(.*?)*(.*?)*(.*?)*(.*?)*(.*?)*(.*?)$/gi){     #prin
+t starting at the date
       push (@logg,$1); }
}

    my %count;
    my $total_count;
   foreach my $element( @logg ) {     #4
    ++$count{$element};
    $total_count++;
   }

#Sort hash by its values
   foreach my $element (sort {$count{$a} <=> $count{$b}} keys %count){
       
       print "Name: $element<font color=red size=\"2\">Shows:<b>$count
+{$element}</b></font> times.<br>";

}

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I want to do this to every element on the file, I mean:
$1*$2*...*$8. And display how many times each element was present on the file.
If I run this code it will show the number of times ok, but I can't display such:
Company was here for 8 times.
I hope I was clear now.
And, Thanks for the help, once again!

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