This is not homework lol.

I wish it was though, wouldn't be as stressful.

My coding

#made this events_array up... but the concept remains

It will always be in a particular order, least to greatest in this cas
+e.  
@events_aray = ("1","3","3","4","5","5");

my %days;
my @appears;
my @date_count;
my $c = 0;

foreach my $v (@events_aray) {

#this foreach will split the values of the array I have populated
#it will then produce a hash with keys as a date.
#another array will be generated containing each dates of the event.  
+ 

 my ($date, $subject, $text) = split(/,/, $events_array);
     $days{$date} .= "<b>$subject($symbolx)<b><br><br>$text<br><br>";
    $date_count[$c] = "$date"; #this stores the date of the event, thi
+s will be the array I need to figure out how many times each date app
+ears
    $c++;

}


#some subroutine to figure out how to retrieve the amount.  #The array
+ that I said I needed to generate will be @appears.
#this is where I need a little help on.  I will continue #looking thou
+gh and if resolved I will post back asap.



$c = 0;
foreach my $u (keys %days) {


print "date appeared $appears[$c] times";
print "<br><br>$days{$u}";

$c++;
}

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Thats what I have so far....

thanks, John

In reply to Re: extract number of times a value appears in an array by Anonymous Monk
in thread extract number of times a value appears in an array by Anonymous Monk

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