Fellow Monks,
I wrote a nice little scipt (or so I thought) for just performing a wordcount on a text file. Except it does not always give the right answer. It works most of the time, but on some larger text files (and I'm only talking about 4kb here) it gives me a wordcount of 171 (where the actual wordcount is close to 570). Script is below, everything is pretty standard, I figure it must be the match itself that is falling down in certain situations... any advice would be appreciated
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
open (SOURCE, "test.txt")||die "Can't open test.txt: $!";
my @source=<SOURCE>;
close (SOURCE);

my $size=0;
while(<@source>){
        $size++ while m{\b\w+\b}g;
}
print "wordcount: $size words\n";

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Thanks for your help,
Martymart

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