Re: Array Question

There are two problems here:
1) count the occurance of words
2) display the words and occurances in decending order.

Try this...

my %count;
for (@letters) {
  $count{$_}++;
}

for ( map { $_->[0] }
      sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] }
      map { [ $_, $count{$_} ] } keys %count )
{
  print $_, "=>", $count{$_}, "\n";
}
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Re^2: Array Question by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 19, 2005 at 14:44 UTC
Using Schwartzian Transform here is overkill, because hash lookups are very efficient. Simplification: `my @letters = qw( red red red blue white yellow blue navy navy green white cars ); my %count; $count{$_}++ foreach @letters; print("$_ => $count{$_}\n") foreach sort { $count{$b} <=> $count{$a} } keys %count;` [download] Output: `red => 3 blue => 2 white => 2 navy => 2 cars => 1 green => 1 yellow => 1` [download] Kudos for being the first to sort the results, though.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Array Question
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 19, 2005 at 14:44 UTC

Using Schwartzian Transform here is overkill, because hash lookups are very efficient. Simplification:

my @letters = qw(
   red red red blue white yellow blue navy navy green white cars );

my %count;
$count{$_}++
   foreach @letters;

print("$_ => $count{$_}\n")
   foreach sort { $count{$b} <=> $count{$a} } keys %count;
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Output:

red => 3
blue => 2
white => 2
navy => 2
cars => 1
green => 1
yellow => 1
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Kudos for being the first to sort the results, though.

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