If you're looking for a given word in a given directory then File::Find::Rule could be helpful e.g 
use File::Find::Rule;

print "total = ", scalar find(
  file     =>
  maxdepth => 1,
  grep     => qr/WORDHERE/,
  in       => $data
);

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This will find all the files in the $data directory, and search each file matching against the regex passed to grep, we then enforce scalar context on the return of find to get the count of the files that matched the criteria. See. File::Find::Rule for more info on this marvellous module.
HTH

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broquaint

In reply to Re: Count word in my dir by broquaint
in thread Count word in my dir by Anonymous Monk

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