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zapzap
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Oct 16, 2013, 2:40 AM

Post #1 of 4 (1025 views)

Count number of occurrences in list	Can't Post

Greetings,

I am trying to find the number of occurrences in a list. For example suppose we have:

Code

 
my @l = qw/a b c d e a b c c a b e/; 
 
## I want to end up with a hash 
my %hash 
 
TIA 
 
 
{ a => 3, b => 3, c => 3, d => 1 , e => 2 }

I was hoping to utilize either grep or map.

Zhris
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Oct 16, 2013, 6:29 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1022 views)

Re: [zapzap] Count number of occurrences in list [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

Code

my %hash; 
 
%hash = map { $_ => ++$hash{$_} } @l; 
# or 
grep { $hash{$_}++ } @l; 
# or 
$hash{$_}++ for (@l);

Chris

(This post was edited by Zhris on Oct 16, 2013, 8:46 AM)

Laurent_R
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Oct 16, 2013, 2:22 PM

Post #3 of 4 (999 views)

Re: [Zhris] Count number of occurrences in list [In reply to]	Can't Post

I frankly would use the first or third of the solutions proposed by Chris, but would tend to avoid the grep version because, although it works perfectly, it is using the grep function for something that it is not really designed to do and is therefore a bit more complicated to understand.

And if you want to print the resulting hash in the way described in the OP, you might do something like this:

Code

 print "{", (join ",", map {" $_ => $hash{$_}"} sort keys %hash), " }";

which should happily print:

Code

{ a => 3, b => 3, c => 3, d => 1, e => 2 }

zapzap
User

Oct 17, 2013, 12:15 AM

Post #4 of 4 (993 views)

Re: [Zhris] Count number of occurrences in list [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanx, good stuff.

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