Would've been nice of me to elaborate, sorry :-)

OK - Now I have about 10 meg, maybe more. I don't know
what I will have down the road. Maybe 100 meg next time
around?

And the data - it's a single number (a count) plus a
text descriptor. Descriptor may have whitespace, but
I can count on only one space between number and descriptor

Now, what I need to do is take all the lines that match
descriptor, add their counts, and print them.

i.e.,

my ($freq, $word) = split;
$freq_hash{$word} += $freq;
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does the job in a rather unscalable way

Make sense?

Thanks again,
felonious
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