#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my (@data,$word,@lessWords,%stopwords,$stop); open( LIST, "stopwords.txt" ) or die "$!"; my @stopwords = ; close LIST; chomp @stopwords; $/=""; while(<>) { push @data, $_; } foreach $word (@data) { foreach $stop (@stopwords) { next if $word eq $stop; } push(@lessWords, $word); } print "@lessWords\n";