From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Mar 26 12:18:23 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A02437B404
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>;
	Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:18:23 -0800 (PST)
Received: from hotmail.com (dav44.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.162.16])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F5443F93
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>;
	Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:18:23 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from kenzo_chin@hotmail.com)
Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
	 Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:18:22 -0800
Received: from 209.187.233.156 by DAV44.sea1.internal.hotmail.com with DAV;
	Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:18:22 +0000
X-Originating-IP: [209.187.233.156]
X-Originating-Email: [kenzo_chin@hotmail.com]
From: "Kenzo" <kenzo_chin@hotmail.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:18:20 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
Message-ID: <DAV44DVRXGsNLqY54z30000b1d0@hotmail.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Mar 2003 20:18:22.0898 (UTC)
	FILETIME=[D9974120:01C2F3D4]
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0
	tests=none
	version=2.50
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp)
Subject: perl help
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:18:25 -0000

I don't know how to write anything in perl and will eventually learn it.
but I was wondering if anyone would help write a quick perl script for me.

Basically I want the script to look thru a file for certain words and cound
how many times it finds the word that comes after.
I have a log file that keeps track of E-mail attachments being send and
received, and I want to be able to do a count of certain attachments.
for example. say I see alot of "big this", "big that" and "big nothing"
I want to be able to see how many times the word that comes after big
appears in the log file.
so the output would be like this.
this    5
that 10
nothing 20

I hope this is not too confusing.

thanks.