Okay, assume that I have this array generated from a database query: 
@status = ("Applied", "Enrolled", "Admitted", "Applied", "Enrolled");

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I'm trying to figure out the most elegant way on how to provide summary statistics on the items on that array with perl. The output would be some kind of associative array: 
@statuscount = ("Admitted" => "1", "Applied" => "2", "Enrolled" => "2"
+);

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I know that I can do this by doing another database call using COUNT, but I want to minimize the number of database queries that I do. Thoughts anyone?
TIA

In reply to Counting elements in array and outputing the count and item by dmaranan

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