Hello! The lexicon is a txt space separated list of two columns $POS and $Lemma. I am trying to write a perl code to look for the instances of $Lemma in a text, count them, show the number of POS found. In other words the output I am looking for should look like:

n 500
v 1200

I am a beginner and have written the following but not sure what is the problem or how to get it to work. 
open(S, "Lexicon.txt");
while($sa=<S>){
($POS, $Lemma) = split('\t',$sa);
$emotive{$Lemma}=$POS};

open(File, 'eng.txt'); 
while($text = <File>){
#this is some preprocessing for the text
$text =~ s/\s+/ /g; 
$text =~ s/,/ ,/g; 
$text =~ s/æ/ æ/g;
$text =~ s/\?/ !/g;
#$text =~ tr/A-Z/a=z/;
@words = split(' ', $text); 
for $word(@words){
if(exists $emotive{$word}){
print $word
}}};

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Thanks in advance :)

In reply to Help Improve/troubleshoot Simple Lexicon Perl Code by clothespeg

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