ok so i have
$hour = "00";
while ($hour < 25)
{
 $infile = "$hour.txt";
 open  (LOG, $infile)
  while <LOG>
   {
    #PUT EACH NEW LINE INTO THE HASH
   }
}

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sorry by "perl.exe" i mean each line of my text files holds a process the computer is doing do 
"SNDSrvc.exe
SPBBCSvc.exe
symlcsvc.exe
spoolsv.exe
AluSchedulerSvc.exe
svchost.exe
btwdins.exe"

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And i am trying to make my hash hold
%hash = ("btwdins.exe", 1, "spoolsv.exe", 1, "svchost.exe", 4,);
So it takes all the lines from the text files but increments the value for every duplicate.
So if svchost.exe is in four text files, or four times in one file, its key and value would be "svchost.exe", 4.

My txt files are already parsed as each *.exe is on a new line. I hope this helps and is not to complicated. Any help is much much appreciated, my brain is frazzled.

In reply to Re^2: Perl Hash Files by blundell
in thread Perl Hash Files by blundell

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