#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

print "Enter the name of your file, ie myfile.txt:\n";
chomp(my $val = <STDIN>);

my %seen;
open my $fh, '<', $val or die "wrong filename: $!";
while (defined(my $line = readline $fh)){
    my @list = split "\t", $line;
    @seen{@list} = map{$seen{$_}||0+1} @list ;
}

#while(my($string, $count) = each %seen){
foreach my $key(sort {$seen{$b} <=> $seen{$a}} keys %seen){
    my $string = $key;
    my $count = $seen{$key};
    print "Number of instances of '${string}' found: $count\n";
}

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