Hello dear perl monks!

It might be a rather simple question but it is quite complicated fo me as I have started to study perl only this morning. So in fact I am a molecular biologist. The question itself is the following:

I have a huge number of scored distances between two types of genes. A small part of it looks like this: 


2483
2490
2494
2496
2500
2501
2508
2517
2518
2519
2527
2530
2541
2541
2542
2555
2557
2561
2562
2565
2572
2572
2575
2582
2585
2588
2589
2597
2598
2603
2604
2608
2611
2620
2632
2642
2643
2645
2647
2649
2651
2659
2661
2664
2667
2669
2670
2673
2675
2677

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I would like to build several distributions of these lengths with different bins. So, what will be the propper way to devide these data into certain intervals and to count the number of elements in each interval using perl?

I will be very grateful if you could help.

In reply to build a distribution by Grig

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