#!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.014; use warnings; my %kw; # $kw{kw}->{name} = Number of times kw appears in name.txt my %name; # Inverse of %kw; $name{name}->{keyword} read_words() for <*.txt>; # Now we can do all sorts of useful things with the two hashes: say "$_ has " . (keys $name{$_}) . " unique words" for sort keys %name; say ''; # Keywords ordered by occurrence count for my $kw (sort { keys $kw{$b} <=> keys $kw{$a} } keys %kw) { my $count = keys $kw{$kw}; printf "%10s appears in %2d file%s: %s\n", $kw, $count, $count > 1 ? 's' : ' ', join(', ', sort keys %{$kw{$kw}}); } # Pull in the word lists. sub read_words { open my $fh, '<', $_ or die "Can't open $_: $!"; my $name = s/\.txt$//r; while (<$fh>) { chomp; $kw{$_}->{$name}++; $name{$name}->{$_}++; } close $fh; } #### al.txt: abel abel baker camera delta edward fargo golfer jerky #### al has 8 unique words bob has 7 unique words carmen has 6 unique words don has 3 unique words ed has 3 unique words fargo appears in 5 files: al, bob, carmen, don, ed jerky appears in 4 files: al, carmen, don, ed icon appears in 3 files: carmen, don, ed golfer appears in 3 files: al, bob, carmen edward appears in 2 files: al, bob camera appears in 2 files: al, bob delta appears in 2 files: al, bob hilton appears in 2 files: bob, carmen baker appears in 2 files: al, bob kappa appears in 1 file : carmen abel appears in 1 file : al