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in reply to counting elements using a hash

You are missing the final semi-colon in your first line.

Also, you are using an alphanumeric search (which means "2" will come between "19" and "20"). You will want to use a numeric sort.

use Modern::Perl;

my @numbers = map int(rand(100)), (1..1000);
my %count;

$count{$_}++ for @numbers;

say "$_ occurs $count{$_} time(s)" for sort {$a <=> $b} keys %count;

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