ID file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 ...file25 ID1 ABC12 ABC12 - ABC12 - ABC12 ID2 XYZ11 - - - XYZ11 - ID3 - - EFG21 EFG21 - EFG21 ...... ...... ID1072 - PQR34 PQR34 - PQR34 - #### #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; open (my $f, '<', 'abc.txt') or die; while (my $line = <$f>) { my @elems = split ' ', $line; print " ", $elems[0]; print "\n"; } #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my %wordcount = (); open(theFile,") { chomp($line); my @words = split(' ', $line); foreach my $word(@words) { $wordcount{$word} += 1; } } foreach my $key(keys %wordcount) { print "Word: $key Repeat_Count: " . ($wordcount{$key} ) . "\n"; } #### ID1 ABC12 4 ID2 XYZ11 2 ID3 EFG21 3 ...... ...... ID1072 PQR34 3