Allison, Check out pages 133 - 135 in Learning Perl (3rd Edition) - the section "AutoIncrement and Autodecrement" section _ particularly the top of page 135 has an example for just this very question! I just read that last week so it popped right up in my mind.
If you don't have the book, holler back to me off-line and I will type out the code - it is not too long. Glenn. On Monday 01 April 2002 10:08 am, Allison Ogle wrote: > Hi, > > I have a datafile with a list of names like > > Ana > John > Mike > Tracy > John > Luke > .... > etc. > > I don't know how long the list is and eventually in the list some of the > names will repeat. I want to put these names in an array but I don't want > to repeat any names in the array and I want to keep a count of how many > times the name appears in the list. Does anyone have any ideas or > suggestions? Thanks, > > Allison -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]