duplicates of parts of a line in list
Jim sims
sims at ezpzapps.com
Sun Aug 3 05:05:50 EDT 2014
I have a list of items such as in example 1 shown below.
I want to record how many are the same but only the same by char 1 to 2 and
char 6 to 7 then place that number of duplicates after each line, as in the
second example list.
Any ideas for doing this?
Thanks,
sims
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LIST 1
08:00_d3_180_Monica_pink
10:45_d2_90_Mary_orange
10:00_d2_90_Mary_orange
10:15_d2_90_Mary_orange
10:30_d2_90_Mary_orange
10:00_d2_90_Mary_orange
10:00_d2_90_Mary_orange
12:30_d5_45_Mary_blue
12:45_d5_45_Mary_blue
12:60_d5_45_Mary_blue
LIST 2
08:00_d3_180_Monica_pink_1
10:45_d2_90_Mary_orange_3
10:00_d2_90_Mary_orange_3
10:15_d2_90_Mary_orange_3
10:30_d6_90_Mary_orange_2
10:00_d6_90_Mary_orange_2
10:00_d3_90_Mary_orange_1
12:30_d5_45_Mary_blue_3
12:45_d5_45_Mary_blue_3
12:60_d5_45_Mary_blue_3
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