Hmm, this might actually be more productive I showed less abstract example lines. (I couldn't do this before as I didn't have the code in front of me.) Here is an example of the lines that my code is selecting and then extracting a player name and jump shot attempt(working on this part) then putting into an array. If I were to print out the array with each element on a separate line(assuming I had the count thing working) this is what it would look like(below the sample text)
(11:23) [SAN 2-0] Bowen Jump Shot: Made (2 PTS) (11:10) [PHX] Marbury Jump Shot: Missed (11:07) [PHX] Marion Jump Shot: Missed (10:51) [SAN 4-0] Jackson Jump Shot: Made (2 PTS) (10:23) [SAN] Jackson Jump Shot: Missed (9:43) [SAN] Duncan Jump Shot: Missed (8:43) [SAN] Bowen Jump Shot: Missed (8:31) [PHX] Stoudemire Jump Shot: Missed (8:09) [SAN] Jackson Jump Shot: Missed (7:42) [PHX] Hardaway Jump Shot: Missed (7:09) [PHX] Stoudemire Jump Shot: Missed (6:50) [SAN] Bowen Jump Shot: Missed (6:15) [SAN 10-2] Duncan Jump Shot: Made (4 PTS) (5:52) [PHX] Williams Jump Shot: Missed (5:46) [PHX 5-10] Marion Jump Shot: Made (5 PTS) (5:06) [SAN 12-7] Ginobili Jump Shot: Made (2 PTS) Bowen 1 Marbury 1 Marion 1 Jackson 1 Jackson 2 Duncan 1 Bowen 2 Stoudemire 1 Jackson 3 Hardaway 1 Stoudemire 2 Bowen 3 Duncan 2 Williams 1 Marion 2 Ginobili 1 Right now my array is just like that, minus the numbers. So what I want to do is assign the array to a hash. If I were to do that, my understanding is that the names would be keys and the numbers values, and doing such an assignment in a loop would cause some entries to be overwritten. As soon as "Bowen 2" shows up as an array element, "Bowen 1" is overwritten. This is what I want it to do. Using the array output above, this is what I would expect to happen upon the array being assigned to the hash and the hash being printed out: Marbury 1 Jackson 3 Hardaway 1 Stoudemire 2 Bowen 3 Duncan 2 Williams 1 Marion 2 Ginobili 1 How can I assign my array to a hash, have an individual counter for each player every time he attempts a Jump Shot, and then have output from my hash like shown above? Oh, presently, my code is printing the name, which is the key, and then a colon, and then another name, ofwhich I'm not sure is coming from. It also is printing this error message: "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at statsll.pl line 24, <STATS. line 507" line 24 is this line: print "$key:$value\n"; I don't know what this all means. code is below Thanks in advance. -stu Oh, and James, thanks for your help, but I don't think I was as clear as I should have been. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; open(STATS, "stats.txt") or die "statfile\n"; my $key; my $value; my %linehash; my @line; my $player; my $num = 0; while (<STATS>) { if ($_ =~ /(\w+\b) (Jump Shot)/) { $player = $1; push(@line, $player); %linehash = @line; $num++; } while (($key,$value) = each(%linehash)) { print "$key:$value\n"; } } print "@line"; __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]