use 5.010; my %parsed; while ( ){ my @tmp = split; $parsed{$tmp[0]}{x1}++ if $tmp[1] eq '1_x'; $parsed{$tmp[0]}{c3}++ if @tmp > 2; } for my $k ( sort keys %parsed ) { say join ' ', $k, $parsed{$k}->{x1}, $parsed{$k}->{c3}; } __DATA__ A 1_x 9_z A 1_x A 1_x g_z B 2_c B 1_x 1_z C 1_x 1_z C v_x 8_z