Hey guys, I got it to work, thanks for all the help! Heres the code I used incase you were curious, its kind of a mix between both of yours. 
#!perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $wordlist = 'wordlist.txt';

open (LIST, $wordlist) or die "\n Cannot open $wordlist: $!\n";

my @listofwords;

while (<LIST>)
{
    chomp;
    push @listofwords, $_;
}

print "There are " . scalar(@listofwords) . " words in $wordlist\n";

if (@listofwords eq 0)
{
print "\n$wordlist contains nothing! \n";
exit 0
} else {
print "\n$wordlist is loaded! \n"}

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In reply to Re: Testing if a .txt file contains any data by sigmaaa
in thread Testing if a .txt file contains any data by sigmaaa

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