Hi try this 

my $string = "Hello World!\n  Oh poor Yorick, his world I knew well ye
+s I did";
($err) = $string =~ s#(\w+)#$1#g;
print $err;

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Update: Using undef $/, you read all the text in one scalar and only word you replace by word and store in the variable. You may get the total count of the word of the document.

Regards,

s,,aaagzas3uzttazs444ss12b3a222aaaamkyae,s,,y,azst1-4mky,,d&&print

In reply to Re: Word incidence count by gube
in thread Word incidence count by redhotpenguin

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