foreach $sentence(@sentences) { #print FILE "$sentence\n"; @words = split(/[^\w'a-zA-Z0-9_'-?]/,$sentence); $Counter =0; foreach $word(@words){ $Counter = $Counter+1; print ("$word\n"); } $sentence_count{($Counter)} = $sentence_count{($Counter)}+1; } while (($sentence_count,$word_count) = each(%sentence_count)) { print ("There are $word_count sentences of $sentence_count words\n"); }