I usually use this script and pipe the results to a text file:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# $Id: wordfreq.perl,v 1.13 2001/05/16 23:46:40 doug Exp $
# http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ <= old URL; dead now
# http://dada.perl.it/shootout/wordfreq.perl.html <= URL as of time th
+is post was written

# Tony Bowden suggested using tr versus lc and split(/[^a-z]/)

use strict;

my %count = ();
while (read(STDIN, $_, 4095) and $_ .= <STDIN>) {
    tr/A-Za-z/ /cs;
    ++$count{$_} foreach split(' ', lc $_);
}

my @lines = ();
my ($w, $c);
push(@lines, sprintf("%7d\t%s\n", $c, $w)) while (($w, $c) = each(%cou
+nt));
print sort { $b cmp $a } @lines;

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planetscape

In reply to Re: How do I count the frequency of words in a file and save them for later? by planetscape
in thread How do I count the frequency of words in a file and save them for later? by ghenry

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