Monks,

I was asked by someone today how I would determine the count of words within a document for each word. I struggled to find a good solution, then in that nether-realm of reality when I was ready to give up, the following solution came upon me. How would you have solved this problem? (Assume the count is case-insensitive)

UPDATE: To clarify I'm trying to get a count of each word in the document, not just a total word count. 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper qw( Dumper );

my $string = "Hello World!\n  Oh poor Yorick, his world I knew well ye
+s I did";

my @words = split( /\W+/, $string);

my %count;
foreach my $word ( @words ) {
    $count{lc($word)}++;
};

print "Word count:  ", Dumper(%count);

1;

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