Basically my data is subject to change but will follow a format as follows where I will have a unique "Family Name" followed by "--" followed by various "family members". The contents of the data are unknown to me apart from the format: Data is a text file as follows: 
FLINTSTONES -- BARNEY, FRED, WILMA
JETSONS -- MAX, TONY, WILMA
SIMPSONS -- LISA, BARNEY, WILMA, HOMER
ALCATRAZ -- ELIJAH, MAX, WILMA

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I know I can grab this into an array called @Dopli. And split each line $unix at "--" into an array @trainer Is there a way of pushing each array into a hash using $trainer[0] and $trainer1. 
sub nice_list {
   return ''    if @_ == 0;
   return shift if @_ == 1;
   
   my $last = pop;
   return join(', ', @_) . " and $last";
}

my $unix;
my @dopli;
my @trainer;

foreach $unix (@dopli){
@trainer = split ('=', $unix);

my %is_eaten_by = (
   $trainer[0]  => [ qw($trainer[1]) ],
  );

foreach my $fruit (keys %is_eaten_by) {
   my $eaters = $is_eaten_by{$fruit};
   my $num_eaters = @$eaters;
   my $s = $num_eaters == 1 ? 's' : '';
   my $p = $num_eaters == 1 ? '' : 's';
   print("$num_eaters person$p eat$s ${fruit}s: ",
         nice_list(@$eaters), "\n");
}
}

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Ultimately I am looking to print: 
BARNEY can be found 2: FLINTSTONES SIMPSONS
FRED can be found 1: FLINTSTONES
WILMA can be found 4: FLINTSTONES JETSONS SIMPSONS ALCATRAZ
MAX can be found 2: JETSONS ALCATRAZ 
and so forth...

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Thanks for any kind of help or advice

In reply to Re^2: Counting Data in two columns? by sdslrn123
in thread Counting Data in two columns? by sdslrn123

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