I re-posted the code using most of the suggestions. With regard to the version thing, I primarily include a version number for my own use, I wasn't trying to adhere to a standard. I didn't even know that there was a standard, to be honest. The sort block was a remnant from when I was going to try to keep the case of the words, rather than converting everything to lower case. I was going to do sort { lc($a) cmp lc($b) }, but ended up dropping the idea cuz it was getting too messy. (Dang, I had a remnant thing in my Fibonacci generator, too. Sorry 'bout that.)

I tried to use your code for creating the list of line numbers, but I kept getting a trailing comma with the output. Any suggestions on that?
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Kurt