Hi Brethren,
I am trying to count the number of times "trigger words" held in an array appear in a text file held in a hash.
The lines of text are split into sentences and held separately in the hash. If the trigger word occurs more than once I would like to be able to count multiple occurrence of the same word.
Got so far but am now a bit stuck!
foreach my $key2 ($keys %UnNum){ foreach my $word(@midWords){ if $word == $key2 { $UnNum{$key}++; } } }
Any pointers where I am going wrong would be much appreciated This is the content of the Array the trigger words
bodi forc twice mass acceler law

The content of the %UnNum is in the format
35 forc two bodi twice strong on bodi sai bodi mass 39 you expect on think new bodi made two bodi origin 60 attract bodi b origin force 46 total forc b twice origin force 34 sai on bodi twice mass three time mass forc six 17 on now see why bodi fall same rate bodi twice
I would like to increase the value for each line by 1 for each occurrence of "bodi", "forc" "twice" etc. First line value up by 5 to 40
40 forc two bodi twice strong on bodi sai bodi mass 41 you expect on think new bodi made two bodi origin
Hope that helps to explain better.

In reply to Counting instances in a hash from an array by Gavin

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