Hello all, I'm having some issues with the output I'm getting with a simple word and character count program. I need to count the amount of words and the amount of characters from input.txt and print the count to output.txt. Everything is working, except my output is being produced for line by line in my .txt file. How can I get the program to return one word count and one character count for the whole .txt file? 
use strict;
use warnings;

open(my $in, "<", "input.txt") or die "Cannot open < input.txt: $!";

open(my $out, ">", "output.txt") or die "Cannot open < output.txt: $!"
+;

my ($words, $chars) = (0, 0);

while (<$in>) {
    $chars += length($_);
    $words += scalar(split(/\s+/, $_));
    print $out ("Words=$words\nCharacters=$chars\n");
}

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The input.txt file has 3 lines to it, which is why I think Words and Characters is outputting 3 times. This is the output I am getting: 
Words=10
Characters=68
Words=81
Characters=475
Words=116
Characters=684

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In reply to Output from read/write txt file by Hayest

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