can someone please help me with this? I do not understand why it's not giving me the each counted key.. it's just giving me 1.. what am I missing?? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use diagnostics;
use Data::Dumper;

my %hash = (  key1 => 'value1',
              key2 => 'value2',
              key3 => 'value3',
              key3 => 'value3',
              key3 => 'value3',
              key1 => 'value3',
              key1 => 'value33',
              key1 => 'value3',
              key1 => 'value3',
              key2 => 'value3',
              key2 => 'value3',
              key2 => 'value3',
              key4 => 'value3',
              key4 => '23232',
              key5 => '23232',
              key6 => '23232',
              key6 => '23232',
           );
my %hist;
foreach (sort keys %hash) {
   $hist{$_}++;
}

print Dumper(%hist);


__END__
foreach (sort keys %hist) {
   print "$_ => $hist{$_}\n";
}


$VAR1 = 'key5';
$VAR2 = 1;
$VAR3 = 'key2';
$VAR4 = 1;
$VAR5 = 'key6';
$VAR6 = 1;
$VAR7 = 'key4';
$VAR8 = 1;
$VAR9 = 'key1';
$VAR10 = 1;
$VAR11 = 'key3';
$VAR12 = 1;

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