Hello, Sorry I am very new to perl. I looked around on the web. Would really appreciate your help. I am looking for a perl program which could handle following reqirement. Requirement: We have a pipe delimited text data file called Product_Models.txt First row of this file is headers. The rows following that will have actual data values for it. So the file Product_Models.txt will look like this: (I have kept only relevent columns here for simplicity)
ModelName|Color
model_1|Red
model_2|Blue
model_2|Green
model_2|Yellow
model_3|White
model_3|Black
model_4|Red
All I want the program to do is create a New file, which will have the only the Unique ModelName and it's Count. Column saperator will be pipe.
So for above input file, this program should create a new file called: ModelCountOutput.txt and it's content will have one header row, followed by it's values looking like this:
ModelName|Count
model_1|1
model_2|3
model_3|2
model_4|1
Thank you so much for your help!!

In reply to Parse a data file (.txt format), read column and have the count by jon36

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