hi monks I have a file with several hundred thousand numbers , and I need to determine the number of times each value is present in the file and print out a numeric sorted list of values and the number of times seen. I thought using a hash such a the example below would work . my idea was For each number in the array, if the number already exists in the hash, then increment the value by 1 ; else if it does not exist in the hash, then add the number to the hash with the initial value of 1 . HOWEVER IT'S NOT WORKING :( AND I CAN'T FIND WHY, PLEASE HELP 

 

my @numbers = (1..100)

  my %count;

foreach $number(@numbers) {
    if (exists $count{$number}) {
        $count{$number}++;
    } else {
        $count{$number} = 1;
    }
}

foreach (sort keys %count) {
    print "$number occurs $count{$number} time(s)\n";
}

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In reply to counting elements using a hash by bk1388

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