Hi, I am new to Perl and I am trying to count the word frequency of a given txt document from a URL using the CGI stuff, I have this word frequency count which I took from the Learning Perl textbook but I don't know to get it to take it from a URL, any suggestions would be great


#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw(-utf-8 :all *table);
use LWP::Simple qw(get);

binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(utf-8)");
print header(-charset=>'utf-8'), "\n",
      start_html({-title=>'URL retrieval',
                  -author=>'Bob'}), "\n";

if (param('URL')) {

  my(@words, %count, $word);
  @words = get(param('URL'));

  foreach $word (@words) {
    $count {word} += 1;
  }

  foreach $word (keys %count) {
    print "$word was seen $count{word} times.\n";
  }

  print start_table ({-border=>1});
  print("Word Count Statistics for ".param('URL')), "\n";
  print caption ("Frequency");
  print end_table ;
}


print h1("URL retrieval"), "\n";
print start_form({-method=>"POST"});

print label("URL: ");
print textfield({-name=>'URL',
                 -size=>200}), "\n";
print br(), "\n";
print submit({-name=>'submit',
              -value=>'Process'}), "\n";
print end_form, end_html;

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Discipulus added correct ending code tag 28 Feb 2019 20:15 GMT+1

In reply to Word frequency from URL Doc by Boberts

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