I have a doubt regarding perl hash data. I have a tab delimited as below:
file1.txt
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- name1 AM bin1
- name2 AM bin1
- name3 PM bin1
- name4 AM bin2
- name5 AM bin1
- name6 PM bin2
bin1 3AM 1PM
bin2 1AM 1PM
I am planning to collect the data in a hash as below: With a comma separating each vale.
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- {key} {value}
- bin1 AM,AM,PM,AM
- bin2 AM,PM
My doubt is after collecting the data into a hash as shown above, how do I count how many AMs and PMs are in each record?
Please let me know.
Regards