comment on

Or, in a few less lines...

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;

{
   my %hash = ();

   while (<DATA>)
   {
      my @items = split;

      $hash {pop @items} = shift @items;
   }

   print "key=$_, val=$hash{$_}\n" foreach sort keys (%hash);
}

__DATA__
1 time 02:11:05 djw
5 time 04:20:03 bert
2 time 00:01:39 chris
[download]

[jcw@linux fs]$ perl q.pl
key=bert, val=5
key=chris, val=2
key=djw, val=1
[jcw@linux fs]$
[download]

--Chris

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in thread regexp's by djw

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