#!/usr/bin/perl

@foo= ("apple","orange","pear","pear","mango","apple");

for (@foo) {
$bar{$_}++;
}

while ( ($k,$v) = each %bar ) {
if ($v =~ 1){
    print "$k appears $v time\n";
}
elsif ($v !=~ 1){
    print "$k appears $v times\n";
}
}

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The above code works nicely with a one column set of data: 
apple
orange
pear
pear
mango
apple

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For me the next stage is working with a 2-column set of data: 
apple  Tom
orange Tom
pear   Tom
mango  David
apple  David

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How would I go about creating a program that outputs: 
APPLE appears 2TIMES associated with TOM and DAVID
ORANGE appears 1TIME associated with TOM
...e.t.c

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I am hoping to extend this to data that has lots of rows of this type of 2 column data. My thinking is playing around with hashes?

In reply to Counting Data in two columns? by sdslrn123

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