Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:28:31 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> To: "Christopher J. Umina" <uminac@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com> Cc: FreeBSD Question Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: checking if something is already in an array Message-ID: <20020730212213.G6656-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020730170022.H81391-100000@216-164-225-145.c3-0.wth-ubr2.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com>
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Christopher J. Umina wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm really stupid lately with Perl and stuff, but I got this list
> of screen names and I made it into an array in perl called @sns. I want
> to count the amount of times each name shows up in that array and I want
> to make an array of each name in the original array, but only occuring
> once.
Use a hash. That's what they are for =0)
for $key (@sns) {
$hash{$key}++;
}
#
# $hash{$key} says how many times $key is in @sns
#
If you want an array with the keys of the hash, just say:
@keys=keys(%hash);
Read perldata(1) for further details on hashes and arrays
Hope this helps
Fer
>
> adarc22
> adarc22
> adarc22
> adarc22
> alldayyesterday
> alldayyesterday
> babygurl2835
> babygurl2835
> bctictac8
> bctictac8
> beth42085
> cc skillet
> ccgirl436
> ccgirl436
> devilchik205
> dublindamien
> e is happy
> e is happy
> fritzilldo
> ilaughatyourlife
> jea9f2oo3
> katsie236
> kelzy16
> lauren md 6 9
> mastahuy85
> meikman99
> meikman99
> reggie645
> reggie645
> reggie645
> reggie645
> reggie645
> reggie645
> reggie645
> russh2112
> russh2112
> sllissa85
> superman lmd 69
>
> ...is my original array but I want a new array with each name in this
> array appearing only once and count each name's occurance in an additional
> array, even a 2d array works. (if you can do that in Perl...?)
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Christopher J. Umina
>
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