Re: Count number of elements in HoH and sum them for other keys

[BillKSmith]

A simple hash is all you need. Use the things you want to count as keys.

use strict;
use warnings;
my %hash;
while (<DATA>) {
    my @elements = split;
    $hash{join ' => ', @elements[0,1]}++;
    $hash{$elements[0]}++;
}
foreach my $key (sort keys %hash) {
    printf "%-6s  =>  %d\n", $key, $hash{$key};
}
__DATA__
A B n1
A B n2
A C n1
D E n2
D E n4
D F n1

OUTPUT:

A       =>  3
A => B  =>  2
A => C  =>  1
D       =>  3
D => E  =>  2
D => F  =>  1