in reply to Parsing a Flat File and counting occurances of numbers?

Just a start:
perl -wne ' $h{$1}++ if /bn(\d{4}),/ }{$,="\t"; print %h, "\n" ' datafile
To see the actual code, use:
perl -MO=Deparse -wne ' $h{$1}++ if /bn(\d{4}),/ }{$,="\t"; print %h, "\n" '

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Ruud