Dear perl514,

sounds like you got a good concept of solving your problem. Please add your sourcecode to the questions if possible for better help.

I'd walk through the lines using while (<$fh>) and split each line at \t which returns an array of each line's information.

Understanding might be easier if you print out the split result array using join or Data::Dumper until your script is working.

If all you need is this output, you may use a trick to avoid using references (which isn't that easy for Perl beginners) by using a hash and the full text part ("Total Number of $split_result[4] Devices of $split_result[7]MB") as the key. The "++" operator easily adds one for each device found matching that key.

The conversion of MB's to other units may be done using a if/elsif/else block or a CPAN module like Format::Human::Bytes.

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In reply to Re: Counting devices types, device sizes and number of devices. by Sewi
in thread Counting devices types, device sizes and number of devices. by perl514

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