Hi Monks,

For many of you, this will be pretty simple, yet I'm having some problems putting this into code. I'm reading in a file.
open(IN, "<$file") || die "Can't open $file!\n";

while(<IN>) {
chomp($_);
my ($id, $stdate, $enddate, $person) = split(/\|\|/, $_);
}

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There is a many to many relationship between $id and $person. I want to produce a list that has a count of id's for each person. It seems a hash would be the most likely way to do this. But I haven't been able to get it to work. Here is what I would like to produce for the output:
James P  24 id's
Alex S   50 id's
Diane G   4 id's
James A  12 id's
Sam D    11 id's

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Any thoughts?

Louis

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