Dear monks, My intention is to count the number of words in List 2, that contain each of the letters in List 1. When i run the code the first count is fine, however, the subsequent counts are added to the previous ones, such that the final count is the sum of all the counts, not the count of how many "words" contain an "F", as i want it to be. Where am i going wrong? Here is my code. 

   use warnings; use strict;

    my $count=0;
    my @list1  = ("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F");
    my @list2 = ("AXE", "DOG", "CAT", "FOOD", "TRANCE");

    for (my $i=0; $i<scalar(@list1); $i++){    
          for (my $j=0; $j<scalar(@list2); $j++){
        my $word = $list2[$j];    
           my $letter = $list1[$i];
            
        if ($word =~ /$letter/){
            $count++;
        }
    }    
    print "$count \n";
    }

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