Some useful starting information:
  1. Files and I/O in perlintro talks about how to open and read a file.
  2. You need to define what you mean by a 'word'. I know that sounds a bit strange at first, but that will control how you split your sentences up.
  3. length and split will probably be very useful functions, though you may use other variants on regular expressions for the line parsing.
  4. For all word counts, you'll definitely want to use a hash.

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#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

In reply to Re: Perl beginnere by kennethk
in thread Perl beginnere by evereno

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