Couple of tiny comments on your code: 

my @words = split /\s/, $line;

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Might have problems if there are multiple spaces, spaces and tabs, so 

my @words = split /\s+/, $line;

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Would be better, surely? Is that what your removeNullEntries is about?

I ended up coming up with a complex regex to get what I thought were "words" out of text, something like 

/\w[\w'-]*\w|\w+/

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rather than just grabbing strings seperated by whitespace and trying to figure out if they're really valid words later.

And 

my @stopList = ("the", "a", "an", "of", "and", "on", "in",
 "by", "with", "at", "he", "after", "into", "their", "is",
 "that", "they", "for", "to", "it", "them", "which");

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Seems like it would be better off as a hash so you can just go if(defined($stoplist{$word})). 

($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
 =~y~b-v~a-z~s;                             print

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In reply to Re: Simple Text Indexing by Cody Pendant
in thread Simple Text Indexing by cyocum

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