in reply to New perl student... feeling stupid
What's happend is that you've created a hash %count to contain all your information, but in your code, you use scalar variables $vow, $para, etc, etc.
What you want is $count{'vow'}++ for vowels, $count{'para'}++ for paragraphs, etc, etc...
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What you want is $count{'vow'}++ for vowels, $count{'para'}++ for paragraphs, etc, etc...
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