To generate the HTML -
use strict;
use IO::File;
die "usage: $0 [filename.txt]" if $#ARGV < 0;
my $f = new IO::File $ARGV[0], "r"
   or die "File $ARGV[0] not found.";
my $text = do {local $/; <$f>};
print <<HTML
<html>
<head><title>$ARGV[0]</title></head>
<body>
<pre>
$text
</pre>
</body>
</html>
HTML
;

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To get a word count, simply do this -
my $wordcount = $text =~ /\w+/g;

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Update: Ops, someone reminded me that this is a homework question. I suddenly felt bad about giving out answers like that. But this solution isn't going to get 100% because it has hidden loop holes, so that's fair.

In reply to Re: Need help with a Simple File, transferring a plain text document to a plain HTML document by Roger
in thread Need help with a Simple File, transferring a plain text document to a plain HTML document by Anonymous Monk

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