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Use <code class="command">++</code> to increment the associated value of a unique key in an array, as in:
</div><pre class="screen"><em class="replaceable"><code>array_name</code></em>[<em class="replaceable"><code>index_expression</code></em>] ++</pre><div class="para">
Again, you can also use a handler function for your <code class="command"><em class="replaceable"><code>index_expression</code></em></code>. For example, if you wanted to tally how many times a specific process performed a read to the virtual file system (using the event <code class="command">vfs.read</code>), you can use the following probe:
</div><a id="idm20699976" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp12740888" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp36016328" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm5586904" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm2071424" class="indexterm"></a><div class="example" id="simplesimplevfsread"><h6>Example 3.16. vfsreads.stp</h6><div class="example-contents"><pre class="programlisting">probe vfs.read
{
reads[execname()] ++
}</pre></div></div><br class="example-break" /><div class="para">
In <a class="xref" href="arrayops-increment.html#simplesimplevfsread">Example 3.16, “vfsreads.stp”</a>, the first time that the probe returns the process name <code class="command">gnome-terminal</code> (i.e. the first time <code class="command">gnome-terminal</code> performs a VFS read), that process name is set as the unique key <code class="literal">gnome-terminal</code> with an associated value of 1. The next time that the probe returns the process name <code class="command">gnome-terminal</code>, SystemTap increments the associated value of <code class="literal">gnome-terminal</code> by 1. SystemTap performs this operation for <span class="emphasis"><em>all</em></span> process names as the probe returns them.
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