hello monks!, I have an array @sort which looks like this:- 
sort[0]=ABCDEF  958439  MS08-074        Security Update for the 2007 M
+icrosoft Office System (KB958439) 2009-01-08
sort[1]=FFFFFF  958439  MS08-074        Security Update for the 2007 M
+icrosoft Office System (KB958439) 2009-01-09

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I wanted to get an output like this:-- 
TOTAL   BulletinID      KBID    TITLE 2009-01-08 2009-01-09
2       ABCDEF  958439  MS08-074         1          1

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This is the coding that i have done:-- 
$count=0;
    $index=0;
    $current="";
    foreach $line (@sorted){
        $index++;
        $count++;
        @split =split(/\t/, $line);    
        $curr="@split[2]\t@split[1]\t@split[3]";
        if ("$prev" eq ""){
            $prev = $line;
            $count=0;
        }else {
            if ($prev eq $curr) {
                
            } else {
                push (@filtered,"$count\t$prev");
                $count=0
            }
            
        }

        $prev = $curr;
        
    }
    
    
    print "\nTOTAL\tBulletinID\tKBID\tTITLE\tdate\n";
    foreach $line (@filtered){
        print "$line\n";
    }
    print "\n";

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This is the output i am getting:--- 
TOTAL   BulletinID      KBID    TITLE
1       ABCDEF  958439  MS08-074

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I am having trouble counting the TOTAL which is giving me wrong numbers. I was unanle to count by date. Any coding ideas will be greatly apprecaited.

In reply to Counting matching Lines of an Array by green_lakers

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